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A support program for blood cancer patients is on the chopping block and your urgent help is needed to save it! This program has allowed The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and other patient organizations to support patients in their treatment and care -- especially those with the greatest need. Without this assistance, LLS and other patient groups will have to cut assistance programs to the most vulnerable blood cancer patients. This patient assistance program will be eliminated if you do not help now! Please help save this important program by urging your representatives to retain funding for this program now!
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The president's recently released budget proposal includes increases of just 3.2 percent for NIH and 3.16 percent for NCI. Advocates are urged to contact their legislators and urge them to increase both NIH and NCI's budget by 13.5 percent; increases of $4.2 billion for NIH and $691 million for NCI. Please contact your elected official now! (View full details)
Reps. Lois Capps and Charles Boustany and Sen. Mary Landrieu have introduced the Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act (H.R. 1844 and S. 1773). The bills seek to coordinate active treatment and ensure a smooth transition from that treatment to survivorship care and follow-up by establishing a new Medicare service for cancer care planning, and authorizing model programs for delivery of coordinated cancer care, including initiatives targeting the medically underserved. Please, urge your elected officials to support the Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act now! (View full details)
Improvements in long-term survival rates for pediatric cancer patients present some new challenges for patients, including a greater risk of secondary cancers, limited access to follow-up care, and cognitive or psychosocial problems. Reps. Jackie Speier and Mary Bono Mack have introduced the Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Research and Quality of Life Act (H.R. 2109) that would provide resources to fund research and survivorship programs that would dramatically improve the quality of life for all cancer survivors. Please urge your representative to co-sponsor this important legislation now. (View full details)
Reps. Joseph Sestak (D-PA) and Michael McCaul (R-TX) have announced the formation of a bipartisan Pediatric Cancer Caucus to provide a voice for children in this country who are suffering from cancer. The Caucus is still being formed and looking for members. If you would like your representative to be a champion of childhood cancer causes, please invite them to join the Pediatric Cancer Caucus.
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Reps. Steve Israel and Patrick Tiberi have introduced the Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2009 (H.R. 1927). This bill would provide physician practices with Medicare reimbursement for cancer patient treatment education, waive Medicare coinsurance requirements for patients using these services and call to expand research into cancer symptom management. Please, take a moment to contact your representative and ask him or her to co-sponsor H.R. 1927 now! (View full details)
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