A resolution designating September 2019 as "National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month".

Bill: 116-sres-350
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2019-09-26
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer

Child health

Commemorative events and holidays

Health promotion and preventive care
Latest action: action_date: 2019-09-26
text: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5760; text: CR S5755)

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-09-26
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This resolution designates September 2019 as National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and pledges to make the prevention and a cure for cancer a public health priority.</p>

action_date: 2019-09-26
action_desc: Passed Senate
text: <p>This resolution designates September 2019 as National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and pledges to make the prevention and a cure for cancer a public health priority.</p>

tv_txt: III 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 350 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 26, 2019 Mr. Manchin (for himself, Mr. Hawley , Mr. Reed , and Mrs. Capito ) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to RESOLUTION Designating September 2019 as National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month .

Whereas each year more than 15,000 children under the age of 19 in the United States, and more than 300,000 children globally, are diagnosed with cancer; Whereas every year more than 1,700 children under the age of 19 in the United States lose their lives to cancer; Whereas childhood cancer is the leading cause of death from disease and the second overall leading cause of death for children in the United States; Whereas the 5-year survival rate for children with cancer has increased from 58 percent in the mid-1970s to 84 percent in 2019, representing significant improvement from previous decades; and Whereas cancer occurs regularly and randomly and spares no racial or ethnic group, socioeconomic class, or geographic region: Now, therefore, be it

That the Senate— (1) designates September 2019, as National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month ; (2) requests that the Federal Government, States, localities, and nonprofit organizations observe the month with appropriate programs and activities, with the goal of increasing public knowledge of the risks of cancer; and (3) recognizes the human toll of cancer and pledges to make the prevention and cure of cancer a public health priority.