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Mobilize to increase awareness and funding for skin cancer and melanoma.

The Need for Increased Funding:

Research and program funding for the prevention of skin cancer has been disproportionately low. Skin cancer stands alone as the cancer for which incidence and mortality are rising unabated while the best means for combating the disease, prevention and early detection, continues to be severely underutilized. In part, this is related to the fact that less than 2% of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's cancer control budget is devoted to prevention of skin cancer. This year, we request that the CDC's skin cancer prevention program receive $5 million dollars for public and professional education.

We ask that you contact your representatives in the House and Senate to encourage funding for skin cancer. To find the names and contact information of your state's representatives, visit our Advocate page or search the House website at www.house.gov and the Senate at www.senate.gov.