Senate Bill sb2972

    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SR 2972

    By Senator Smith





    14-2358-03

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing April 2003 as "Cancer

  3         Control Awareness Month" in the State of

  4         Florida.

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  6         WHEREAS, cancer afflicts approximately three out of

  7  four families, two out of every five Floridians are expected

  8  to eventually be victimized by cancer, and cancer now accounts

  9  for one out of every four deaths in Florida, and

10         WHEREAS, it is estimated that in Florida during 2003,

11  there will be 96,100 new cases of cancer and 40,100 Floridians

12  will die from cancer, and

13         WHEREAS, it is estimated that in 2003 one-third of all

14  cancer deaths in Florida will result from nutritional

15  deficiencies, physical inactivity, obesity, and other

16  avoidable lifestyle factors, and

17         WHEREAS, 13 percent of all cancers diagnosed last year

18  were lung cancers resulting from tobacco use and 28 percent of

19  the cancer deaths last year were caused by lung cancer

20  resulting from tobacco use, and

21         WHEREAS, the 5-year survival rate for cancer is as high

22  as 95 percent if the disease is diagnosed at an early stage

23  and is still localized, an opportunity most likely available

24  to people who regularly obtain a cancer screening in accord

25  with the American Cancer Society's cancer screening

26  guidelines, and

27         WHEREAS, Cancer Control Awareness Month and statewide

28  cancer-control initiatives, such as the Florida Dialogue on

29  Cancer sponsored by the Florida Division of the American

30  Cancer Society, may result in reducing the rate and severity

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    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SR 2972
    14-2358-03




 1  of cancer afflictions burdening the state and its residents,

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 4  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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 6         That the Florida Senate recognizes April 2003 as

 7  "Cancer Control Awareness Month" in the State of Florida and

 8  encourages all Floridians to learn more about cancer risks and

 9  the behaviors that increase those risks and to regularly

10  obtain cancer screenings in accordance with American Cancer

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