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March 12, 2025

What do the executive orders mean for people with cancer?

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , Diversity And Inclusion , Partnerships , Featured Partner
Tags: Health Equity , Cancer Policy , Breast Cancer Research , Partner , Breast Cancer Advocacy

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September 05, 2024

Bright Pink and FORCE

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: Patient Advocacy , Breast Screening , Bright Pink , Access To Care

June 14, 2023

Reflections on 10 Years Without Gene Patents

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Advocacy , FORCE

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May 01, 2023

What is Legal about Cancer?

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , Hereditary Cancer - General , Partnerships , Featured Partner
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , Patient Advocacy , Health Disparities , Cancer Support , Partner

April 10, 2023

Judge’s Ruling Puts Free Preventive Care in Question. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , Screening And Prevention
Tags: Early Detection , Screening And Prevention , Health Policy , Affordable Care Act , United States Preventive Services Task Force , Cancer Screening

June 15, 2022

Advocacy Spotlight: Increasing Our Focus on State Level Issues

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , Partnerships
Tags: Cancer Advocacy , Patient Advocacy , Cancer Policy

October 09, 2020

Protections Against Genetic Discrimination vs. Pre-existing Conditions

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: Affordable Care Act , Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

February 19, 2020

New Medicare Genetic Testing Policy: What Does It Mean to Me?

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , Genetic Testing , Medicare , Multigenetesting , Tumorbiomarker

July 11, 2019

Protect Yourself, Your Friends and Family from Fraudulent Genetic Testing

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2

May 30, 2019

Alert: Cancer Genetic Testing Should Be Performed in the Health Care Setting

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , Genetic Testing
Tags: Hereditary Cancer , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Inherited Mutations , 23andme

February 22, 2019

FORCE and Other Groups Meet with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Hereditary Cancer Research , Screening And Prevention , PALB2 , ATM

May 11, 2018

Battling BRCA: International Conference in Iceland on BRCA and Cancer

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Ovarian Cancer , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , BRCA2 , Previvor , Ovarian Cancer Early Detection , HBOC , Icelandic Founder Mutation

April 16, 2018

Medicare Establishes National Coverage Policy for Next Generation Sequencing for Tumors

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: Personalized Medicine , Next Generation Sequencing , Tumor Testing , Lynparza , Rubraca , Medicare , Companion Diagnostic

February 28, 2018

Five Year Ovarian Cancerversary

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: BRCA , Ovarian Cancer

October 12, 2017

Patients Weigh In On Review of PARP Inhibitors for Treatment of Ovarian Cancer

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , Cancer Treatment
Tags: Ovarian Cancer , PARP Inhibitor , Patient Advocacy

September 19, 2017

Insurance Coverage for Clinical Trial Participation: Significant Barriers Remain

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , Research
Tags: Clinical Trials , Medicare , Insurance , Medicaid

May 11, 2017

Fueling Patient-Focused Health Care

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , HBOC , Personalized Medicine , Health Policy , Patient Advocacy

April 23, 2017

Reflections on the March for Science

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , FORCE And FORCE Impact
Tags: Research , Insurance , March For Science , Science

January 26, 2017

Flawed Research and Reporting on the “Angelina Effect” Could Threaten Access to HBOC Care

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , XRAY
Tags: BRCA , Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , Hereditary Cancer Research , Genetic Testing , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA2 , Previvor , HBOC , PALB2 , CHEK2 , ATM

August 06, 2012

Applying Personalized Medicine to Disease Screening and Prevention

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: BRCA , Genetics , Hereditary Cancer , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Hereditary Cancer Research , Ovarian Cancer , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , Prophylactic Mastectomy , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Prophylactic Surgery , Survivor , Ovarian Cancer Early Detection , HBOC , Prostate Cancer , PSA , USPSTF , Early Detection , Personalized Medicine , Screening And Prevention

June 01, 2012

13 Facts that Men with Hereditary Cancer Risk Should Know

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , Men With Mutations
Tags: BRCA , Genetics , Breast Cancer , Cancer Prevention , Genetic Counseling , Genetic Testing , BRCA1 , BRCA2 , Previvor , Survivor , Prostate Cancer , USPSTF

December 03, 2009

The community speaks out! Your thoughts on the USPSTF breast screening guideline changes.

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
Tags: Screening And Prevention , Cancer Screening

November 10, 2009

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing: the latest FORCE testimony to SACGHS and FDA feedback

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy
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July 17, 2009

FORCE and Health Care Community Letter in Support of the EARLY Act

Posted in: Laws, Protections And Public Policy , Research
Tags: