WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan support for the 21st Century Cures Act continues to grow stronger by the day. Last week, leading research groups wrote to bipartisan Congressional leadership urging a swift vote on the Cures legislation when Congress returns. That support continues with a letter from One Voice Against Cancer (OVAC), signed by 50 of the nation’s leading cancer-related organizations. Together, they have been engaged on the effort to deliver #CuresNow, and finding an avenue to act on Vice President Biden’s cancer moonshot initiative.
Just as the committee has articulated, OVAC believes the 21st Century Cures Act serves as a critical vehicle to deliver funding for the moonshot initiative.
“OVAC members believe the Cancer Moonshot Initiative objective of making a decade’s worth of life saving scientific progress in the next five years can most likely be achieved by Congress promptly assuring essential funding of it by enactment of the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016," wrote the groups within OVAC. “…The importance of Congress funding the Cancer Moonshot Initiative as soon as possible by enactment of the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016 is without question. Waiting until next year to act is not an option for cancer patients and their families."
Patients and families can’t wait. It’s time for #CuresNow.
The 50 groups that signed the letter are:
Action to Cure Kidney Cancer
Alliance for Prostate Cancer Prevention (APCaP)
American Academy of Dermatology Association
American Association for Cancer Research
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer
American Sexual Health Association
American Society of Clinical Oncology
American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)
American Urological Association
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Association of American Cancer Institutes
Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network
Cancer Support Community
Charlene Miers Foundation for Cancer Research
Debbie’s Dream Foundation: Curing Stomach Cancer
Dermatology Nurses’ Association
Esophageal Cancer Action Network
Fight Colorectal Cancer
Friends of Cancer Research
Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA)
Intercultural Cancer Council Caucus
International Myeloma Foundation
LIVESTRONG Foundation
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS)
The Life Raft Group
Lung Cancer Alliance
Malecare Cancer Support
Men’s Health Network
Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation
MPN Research Foundation
National Alliance of State Prostate Cancer Coalitions (NASPCC)
National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
National Brain Tumor Society
National Cervical Cancer Coalition
National Coalition for Cancer Research (NCCR)
National LGBT Cancer Project
National Patient Advocate Foundation
Oncology Nursing Society
Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
Pennsylvania Prostate Cancer Coalition (PPCC)
Prevent Cancer Foundation
Prostate Conditions Education Council
Sarcoma Foundation of America
Society of Gynecologic Oncology
St. Baldrick’s Foundation
Susan G. Komen
Us TOO International Prostate Cancer Education and Support Network
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