NCI-designated cancer centers call for urgent action to get cancer-preventing HPV vaccination back on track
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Katy Hobgood Ray St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Desk: 901-595-0564 Cell: 901-568-9869 Katy.Hobgood@stjude.org media@stjude.org Marvin Stockwell St. Jude Children’s Research…
More people under age 50 now have access to colorectal cancer screening
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lisa Berry Edwards Lisa.Edwards@preventcancer.org The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) today finalized their new recommendations for colorectal cancer screening, giving…
Prevention in Action: Advocacy Workshop in June and FDA’s ban on menthol cigarettes
Registration opening soon! Prevent Cancer Advocacy Workshop 2021 The Prevent Cancer Foundation will host its annual Advocacy Workshop virtually on June 17, 2021. The Workshop…
Better health through earlier cancer detection
Prevent Cancer Foundation invited GRAIL to share this piece as part of their sponsorship of the 2021 Prevent Cancer Dialogue, where they will be presenting…
Prevention in Action: Biden’s proposed new health agency, expanded lung cancer and more
President Biden proposes new health agency to focus on cancer and other diseases On April 9, President Biden announced his FY2022 budget proposal, which…
Prevention in Action: Multi-cancer early detection coverage bill, Rep. Raskin video and American Rescue Plan Act
Welcome back to your bi-weekly advocacy update! The Prevent Cancer Foundation’s advocacy newsletter (formerly “Power.Progress.Prevention”) is now called “Prevention in Action”—a name that embodies the…
Prevent Cancer Foundation leads more than 300 organizations in support of the Medicare Multi-Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 2021
Media Contact Lisa Berry Edwards Lisa.Edwards@preventcancer.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Prevent Cancer Foundation® and more than 300 organizations from all 50 states applaud Representative Terri…
Congress on young-onset colorectal cancer
Twenty members of Congress joined with Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) in a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services…
Power. Progress. Prevention. October 23, 2020
CMS approves Nebraska Medicaid expansion waiver On Tuesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a waiver from Nebraska to provide additional benefits…
Power. Progress. Prevention. October 9, 2020
New survey shows Americans are missing cancer screenings The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recently conducted its fourth annual National Cancer Opinion Survey, which polled…