Presidential Document2024-07188
National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month, 2024
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April 3, 2024
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March 29, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 3, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 22885-22886]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07188]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 89 , No. 65 / Wednesday, April 3, 2024 /
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Proclamation 10717 of March 29, 2024
National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection
Month, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Cancer has touched nearly every American family. During
National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month,
we honor the enormous courage and strength of the
millions of Americans facing the disease today and of
the many millions of survivors, whose resilience
inspires us all. Together, we will end cancer as we
know it and get patients and families the quality care
and support that they deserve.
In recent decades, we have made enormous progress
toward beating cancer. In addition to new medicines and
therapies, we have developed early detection methods
and discovered prevention measures that extend and save
lives. Studies have shown that over 30 percent of
cancers diagnosed today could be prevented through
methods like decreasing environmental and toxic
exposures to carcinogens and making lifestyle changes
like reducing tobacco use and improving nutrition.
Still, cancer is the second-leading cause of death in
our country.
I came to office determined to change that. Beating
cancer is personal to my family, as it is to millions
of families across America and around the world. That
is why the First Lady and I re-ignited the Cancer
Moonshot. The goal is to cut the cancer death rate by
at least 50 percent in the next 25 years--starting by
preventing the cancers we know we can stop and catching
others as early as possible. We are also working to
turn more cancers from death sentences into chronic
diseases that people can live with and to create more
supportive experiences for patients and their families.
To help achieve that, I established the Advanced
Research Projects Agency for Health, securing $4
billion in bipartisan funding to date to help the
scientists, innovators, and public health professionals
who are working day and night to improve the
prevention, detection, and treatment of cancers and
other deadly diseases. We are not just working toward
incremental changes--we are looking for quantum leaps
forward.
It is important for every American to know that cancer
screenings are lifesaving--early detection can make all
the difference in beating the disease. That is why my
Administration is working to ensure that every American
can get them. During my first year in office, we
expanded coverage under the Affordable Care Act, which
requires insurers to pay for cancer screenings and
primary care visits. More Americans have insurance than
under any President, ensuring that millions of
Americans now have health coverage for those services
and more. My Administration is also helping millions of
families save an average of $800 per year on their
health insurance premiums. To increase access to early
detection, my Administration has partnered with
community health centers to provide screenings closer
to folks' homes, and we extended health care coverage
for lung cancer screenings. Further, we have closed
loopholes so that new stool-based screening tests and
follow-up screenings do not lead to surprise costs for
patients undergoing colonoscopies. Eliminating these
barriers to screenings will save and extend countless
lives. To learn your personal risk factors and know
which screenings are right for you, please talk to your
health care provider, visit <a href="http://cdc.gov/cancerscreening">cdc.gov/cancerscreening</a> or
<a href="http://cancer.gov/screeningtests">cancer.gov/screeningtests</a>, or call 1-800-
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4-CANCER for more information. We encourage everyone to
schedule routine cancer screening appointments.
At the same time, healthy life habits--like maintaining
a healthy body weight and reducing exposure to tobacco
smoke--can prevent certain cancers, so we are working
to help all Americans get and stay healthy. Our
National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
supports expanding incentives to purchase fruits and
vegetables with SNAP, ensures more kids have access to
free and nutritious school lunches, and expands access
to nutrition and obesity counseling. For help with
quitting smoking--the leading cause of cancer in
America--visit <a href="http://SmokeFree.gov">SmokeFree.gov</a>, call 1-800-QUIT-NOW, or
text QUITNOW to 333888.
My Administration is working to reduce Americans'
exposure to environmental toxins that can lead to
cancer. Through our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, my
Administration has invested billions of dollars to
clean up toxic sites and help States replace lead pipes
and service lines, protecting millions of families from
exposure to so-called ``forever chemicals'' and other
contaminants that increase people's risk of getting
cancer. I was also proud to sign the PACT Act, ensuring
that veterans exposed to toxic substances during their
military service get the cancer care and benefits that
they deserve.
Ending cancer is the kind of big and ambitious goal
that America has always embraced. For the patients
fighting for a better day, the survivors who give us
strength, the caregivers who share their hearts, the
lives we have lost, and the lives we can save, let us
recommit to this vital work.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, do hereby proclaim April
2024 as National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection
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,
detect, and beat cancer.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
eighth.
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