Leading Cancer Organizations Express Profound Concern Over Proposed Elimination of CDC’s Cancer Prevention Division
Source: CISION PRWeb, May 2025
On behalf of the millions of Americans living with cancer and at risk for being diagnosed, as well as health care providers, researchers, advocates and their communities, we express our profound disappointment and grave concern regarding the proposed elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC) in the President’s FY2026 discretionary funding request.
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — On behalf of the millions of Americans living with cancer and at risk for being diagnosed, as well as health care providers, researchers, advocates and their communities, we express our profound disappointment and grave concern regarding the proposed elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC) in the President’s FY2026 discretionary funding request.
Cancer remains one of our nation’s most significant public health challenges, with nearly two million Americans diagnosed annually and over 600,000 lives lost each year. The United States already faces one of the highest age-standardized cancer incidence rates globally. The proposed elimination of the DCPC as part of the National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion would severely undermine our national capacity to address this critical chronic disease burden at a time when we should be strengthening, not dismantling, our cancer prevention infrastructure.