Presidential Document2022-21770
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 2022
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October 5, 2022
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September 30, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 192 (Wednesday, October 5, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21770]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 192 / Wednesday, October 5, 2022 /
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Proclamation 10458 of September 30, 2022
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 2022
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Far too many Americans face the overwhelming shock of a
breast cancer diagnosis. They are flooded with new
information, worried about loved ones, and at times
unable to afford treatment--all the while staring down
life's toughest questions. During National Breast
Cancer Awareness Month, we rededicate ourselves to
supporting patients and their families, boosting access
to care, and raising awareness about the life-saving
importance of early screening. We honor all those we
have lost to this terrible disease and celebrate the
courageous survivors and advocates fighting to beat it,
along with the loved ones and medical providers who
have their backs every day.
Cancer changes everyone and every family it touches,
including ours--and breast cancer is the second most
common form of the disease among women in the United
States. One in eight women will be diagnosed in their
lifetimes, including an expected 290,000 just this
year. Fortunately, we are making progress in our fight
to end cancer as we know it. The investments our Nation
has made in research and screening technologies have
been transformative. Groundbreaking immunotherapies and
other new treatments have changed the prognosis for so
many, and early detection is our most important tool.
When found early, the 5-year survival rate is now 99
percent.
There is so much more that the greatest Nation in the
world can and must do to get every American access to
the care they need. This year, Jill and I reignited the
Cancer Moonshot program that we first launched in 2016.
We set a game-changing goal of cutting the overall
cancer death rate by half in the next 25 years and
brought leaders from 20-plus offices and agencies
together to form a Cancer Cabinet to get it done. To
accelerate research, my Administration also created
ARPA-H, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for
Health. Modeled on DARPA--the Pentagon agency that gave
us the internet and GPS--ARPA-H will drive
breakthroughs in preventing, detecting, and treating
diseases like cancer. We are working to ensure that
clinical trials recruit participants who reflect the
full diversity of our Nation and find therapies that
better preserve patients' quality of life. A cancer
diagnosis is not only frightening but also a doorway
into a confusing world of appointments, costs, and
care. Patients and their families need information and
support, which is why the First Lady has worked to
highlight programs that put people at the center of
their care.
At the same time, my Administration is working to boost
access to life-saving screenings and treatments. That
means safeguarding the Affordable Care Act, which
requires insurers to cover mammograms and stops them
from turning away survivors by listing cancer as a
``preexisting condition.'' It also means pushing to
expand Medicaid so low-income Americans do not have to
choose between paying the rent or paying for life-
saving care. To that end, we made sure that the
American Rescue Plan lowered health insurance costs for
millions of families, and the Inflation Reduction Act
will now lock in those lower premiums while also
capping the amount
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of money seniors pay for prescription drugs, including
cancer drugs, at $2,000 a year.
Finally, we are also joining with advocates to raise
awareness about the life-saving importance of breast
cancer screenings. Jill has dedicated herself to this
work since 1993, when four of her friends were
diagnosed with breast cancer in just 1 year. She later
founded the Biden Breast Health Initiative, which
educated high school girls in Delaware about breast
health and encouraged them to spread the word to their
own family members. As First Lady, she has traveled the
country to encourage everyone to get the cancer
screenings they need. Nearly 10 million life-saving
screenings were missed during the pandemic. The First
Lady and I call on all Americans to make sure they are
caught up.
As so many families know too well, cancer can rip lives
apart forever. Beating it is one of the biggest things
we can do--as individuals and together as a Nation.
This work transcends party and politics, and there is
nothing we cannot do when we come together as
Americans. For all those we have lost and for the ones
we can save, let us rededicate ourselves this month to
ending cancer and keep building this moonshot into a
movement worthy of the precious lives at stake.
More information on breast cancer is available at
<a href="http://cancer.gov/types/breast">cancer.gov/types/breast</a>. Information specialists at the
National Cancer Institute are also available to help
answer cancer-related questions in English and Spanish
at 1-800-422-6237. Additionally, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention's National Breast and
Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program provides breast
cancer screenings and diagnostic services to those with
low incomes who are uninsured or otherwise qualify for
the program. Americans can learn more about this
program at <a href="http://cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/screenings.htm">cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/screenings.htm</a>.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 2022
as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I encourage
citizens, government agencies, private businesses,
nonprofit organizations, and other interested groups to
join in activities that will increase awareness of what
Americans can do to prevent and control breast cancer,
and pay tribute to those who have lost their lives to
this disease.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirtieth day of September, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.
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