Fight Colorectal Cancer regularly develops policy documents, submits testimony and speaks out on issues impacting colorectal cancer patients. Browse through our published opinions by subject below, or in order of publication at right. Check back regularly for updated position papers.
Affordable Screenings
- The Colon Cancer Screen for Life Act (to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase Medicare Part B), 1/9/2009
- The Colorectal Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment Act (to create a National Colorectal Cancer Screening Program), 1/9/2009
Computer-Assisted Personalized Sedation
Drug Approval
- Comments to the FDA Transparency Task Force, 7/20/2010
- Comments to the FDA Transparency Task Force, 7/1/2009
Drug Shortage Crisis
Erythropoietin Stimulating Agents (ESAs)
Health Care Reform
- Side-by-Side Comparison of the House-Passed, Senate-Passed, and House Reconciliation Bills, 03/21/2010
- Side-by-Side Comparison of the House-Passed and Amended Senate Health Care Reform bills, 12/21/2009
- Side-by-Side Comparison of the House and Senate Health Care Reform bills, 11/24/2009
Mobile Medical Applications
- Statement to the Food and Drug Administration regarding its draft guidance on mobile medical applications, 10/17/2011
Personalized Medicine
Research
- Regulations to Protect Human Research Subjects, 10/26/2011
- 21st Century ALERT Act (letter to bill’s sponsors, Senators Ted Kennedy and Kay Bailey Hutchison), 4/1/2009
- The National Cancer Fund Act (to expand federally funded cancer research and control programs), 1/9/2009
- Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization system (to provide better accuracy and transparency in cancer research funding), 7/9/2008
Virtual Colonoscopy
- Comments regarding Medicare Coverage for virtual colonoscopies, 6/18/2008
- Comments regarding CMS decision to not cover virtual colonoscopies, 3/9/2009
