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3 easy ways you can be part of expanding access to life-saving cancer early-detection tests

 

Help Elevate the Voices of People Impacted by Cancer

One of our advocacy priorities is increasing access to new screening technologies that detect cancer. Here are 3 ways you can help expand access to lifesaving cancer early-detection tests:

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Send a Quick Message

Voice your support for the Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act (MCED Act).

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Share Your Story

Share a story about your experience with cancer screening and why early detection matters to you.

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Spread the Word

Encourage your friends & family to be part of expanding access to lifesaving cancer early-detection tests.

Here's What To Do

Many Americans, especially those living on fixed incomes, in rural communities or facing already limited access to healthcare, are being diagnosed at later stages of cancer, when outcomes are poorer and treatment much more expensive. And for too many, the diagnosis arrives not just as a health crisis, but as a financial one. I have worked with too many families who find themselves facing impossible choices — buy groceries for the week or cover their cancer treatments.

"Something both sides agree on: A bill to prevent late-stage cancer," TheHill.com

Daneen Sekoni VP of Policy & Advocacy, CSC Here's Why Passing The MCED Act Is Critical

Send a Message


Ask your Members of Congress to support efforts to detect cancer early. CSC has joined other leading cancer and patient advocacy organizations to urge Congress to support a bipartisan bill called the Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act (MCED Act), H.R. 842 / S. 339. This bill would create a new coverage pathway, giving people on Medicare access to new, breakthrough screening technologies that detect cancer at earlier stages.

The time to act is now. The MCED Act has very strong support from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress — more than any other healthcare bill. But we need your help to make sure it becomes law.
 

Will you take 2 minutes now to send a letter to your members of Congress asking them to support this important bill?

 

Spread the Word


Encourage your social media networks to join you in making a difference. Invite them to be part of expanding access to lifesaving cancer early-detection tests. 

In your posts:

  • Share a link to this page
  • Tag @CancerSupportCommunity
  • Use the hashtags #MCED

Or, follow us on social media and reshare our posts about the Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act:

Early detection is so important. My lump was not something I would have felt in a regular self-exam, so get your mammograms!

Jan Diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer Read Jan's Early Detection Story

 

 

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