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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1157 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a review |
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| 6 | 6 | | to evaluate the status of research on lung cancer in women and under- |
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| 7 | 7 | | served populations, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | MARCH26, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. S |
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| 11 | 11 | | MITH(for herself and Mrs. CAPITO) introduced the following bill; which |
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| 12 | 12 | | was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, |
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| 13 | 13 | | Labor, and Pensions |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to |
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| 16 | 16 | | conduct a review to evaluate the status of research on |
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| 17 | 17 | | lung cancer in women and underserved populations, and |
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| 18 | 18 | | for other purposes. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Women and Lung Can-4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | cer Research and Preventive Services Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | •S 1157 IS |
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| 27 | 27 | | SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY REVIEW TO EVALUATE AND IDEN-1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | TIFY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE ACCELERA-2 |
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| 29 | 29 | | TION OF RESEARCH ON LUNG CANCER IN 3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | WOMEN AND UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS, 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | GREATER ACCESS TO PREVENTIVE SERV-5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ICES, AND STRATEGIC PUBLIC AWARENESS 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | AND EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS. 7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (a) I |
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| 35 | 35 | | NGENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Human Services, in consultation with the Secretary of De-9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | fense and Secretary of Veterans Affairs, shall conduct an 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | interagency review to evaluate the status of, and identify 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | opportunities for the acceleration of research related to— 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (1) research on lung cancer in women; 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (2) research on lung cancer in underserved pop-14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ulations that meet the eligibility criteria for lung 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | cancer screening as recommended by the United 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | States Preventive Services Task Force; 17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (3) access to lung cancer preventive services; 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | and 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (4) strategic public awareness and education 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | campaigns on lung cancer. 21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (b) C |
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| 50 | 50 | | ONTENT.—The review and recommendations 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | under subsection (a) shall include— 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (1) a review and comprehensive report on the 24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | outcomes of previous research, the status of existing 25 |
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| 54 | 54 | | research activities, and knowledge gaps related to 26 |
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| 57 | 57 | | •S 1157 IS |
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| 58 | 58 | | lung cancer in women and underserved populations 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | in all agencies of the Federal Government; 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (2) opportunities for collaborative, interagency, 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | multidisciplinary, and innovative research, that 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | would— 5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (A) encourage innovative approaches to 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | eliminate knowledge gaps in research on lung 7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | cancer in women; 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (B) evaluate environmental and genomic 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | factors that may be related to the etiology of 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | lung cancer in women; and 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (C) foster advances in imaging technology 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | and techniques to improve risk assessment, di-13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | agnosis, treatment, and the simultaneous utili-14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | zation of other preventive services and activi-15 |
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| 73 | 73 | | ties; 16 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (3) opportunities regarding the development of 17 |
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| 75 | 75 | | a national lung cancer screening strategy to expand 18 |
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| 76 | 76 | | access to such screenings, particularly among women 19 |
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| 77 | 77 | | and underserved populations; and 20 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (4) opportunities regarding the development of 21 |
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| 79 | 79 | | a national public education and awareness campaign 22 |
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| 80 | 80 | | on— 23 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (A) lung cancer in women and underserved 24 |
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| 82 | 82 | | populations; and 25 |
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| 85 | 85 | | •S 1157 IS |
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| 86 | 86 | | (B) the importance of early detection of 1 |
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| 87 | 87 | | lung cancer. 2 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (c) R |
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| 89 | 89 | | EPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date 3 |
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| 90 | 90 | | of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and 4 |
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| 91 | 91 | | Human Services shall submit to Congress a report on the 5 |
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| 92 | 92 | | review conducted under subsection (a). 6 |
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