U.S. Senate Designates November as National Lung Cancer Awareness Month

January 07, 2021 by Alec Stone MA, MPA, Former ONS Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed (https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-resolution/780/text?r=1&s=1) a resolution designating November as National Lung Cancer Awareness Month and supporting early detection of lung cancer, a crucial awareness with smoking on the rise (https://voice.ons.org/advocacy/smoking-initiation-declines-in-teens-rises-in-young-adults) among young adults.

According to the resolution, approved on December 1, 2020, the Senate will:

U.S. Senators Tina Smith (D-MN) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) were the lead sponsors and introduced the resolution (https://voice.ons.org/advocacy/ons-supports-bipartisan-resolution-to-recognize-november-as-national-lung-cancer-awareness) in November 2020. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), John Boozman (R-AK), Tim Scott (R-SC), and Shelley Capito (R-WV) were cosponsors.

“We need to take every possible step to fight this terrible disease that kills tens of thousands of people in Minnesota and across the country each year,” Smith said (https://www.smith.senate.gov/us-senators-tina-smith-marco-rubio-introduce-bipartisan-resolution-recognize-november-national-lung).  


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