[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 192 (Wednesday, October 5, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 60245-60247]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21770]


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                Proclamation 10458 of September 30, 2022

                
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 2022

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Far too many Americans face the overwhelming shock of a 
                breast cancer diagnosis. They are flooded with new 
                information, worried about loved ones, and at times 
                unable to afford treatment--all the while staring down 
                life's toughest questions. During National Breast 
                Cancer Awareness Month, we rededicate ourselves to 
                supporting patients and their families, boosting access 
                to care, and raising awareness about the life-saving 
                importance of early screening. We honor all those we 
                have lost to this terrible disease and celebrate the 
                courageous survivors and advocates fighting to beat it, 
                along with the loved ones and medical providers who 
                have their backs every day.

                Cancer changes everyone and every family it touches, 
                including ours--and breast cancer is the second most 
                common form of the disease among women in the United 
                States. One in eight women will be diagnosed in their 
                lifetimes, including an expected 290,000 just this 
                year. Fortunately, we are making progress in our fight 
                to end cancer as we know it. The investments our Nation 
                has made in research and screening technologies have 
                been transformative. Groundbreaking immunotherapies and 
                other new treatments have changed the prognosis for so 
                many, and early detection is our most important tool. 
                When found early, the 5-year survival rate is now 99 
                percent.

                There is so much more that the greatest Nation in the 
                world can and must do to get every American access to 
                the care they need. This year, Jill and I reignited the 
                Cancer Moonshot program that we first launched in 2016. 
                We set a game-changing goal of cutting the overall 
                cancer death rate by half in the next 25 years and 
                brought leaders from 20-plus offices and agencies 
                together to form a Cancer Cabinet to get it done. To 
                accelerate research, my Administration also created 
                ARPA-H, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for 
                Health. Modeled on DARPA--the Pentagon agency that gave 
                us the internet and GPS--ARPA-H will drive 
                breakthroughs in preventing, detecting, and treating 
                diseases like cancer. We are working to ensure that 
                clinical trials recruit participants who reflect the 
                full diversity of our Nation and find therapies that 
                better preserve patients' quality of life. A cancer 
                diagnosis is not only frightening but also a doorway 
                into a confusing world of appointments, costs, and 
                care. Patients and their families need information and 
                support, which is why the First Lady has worked to 
                highlight programs that put people at the center of 
                their care.

                At the same time, my Administration is working to boost 
                access to life-saving screenings and treatments. That 
                means safeguarding the Affordable Care Act, which 
                requires insurers to cover mammograms and stops them 
                from turning away survivors by listing cancer as a 
                ``preexisting condition.'' It also means pushing to 
                expand Medicaid so low-income Americans do not have to 
                choose between paying the rent or paying for life-
                saving care. To that end, we made sure that the 
                American Rescue Plan lowered health insurance costs for 
                millions of families, and the Inflation Reduction Act 
                will now lock in those lower premiums while also 
                capping the amount

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                of money seniors pay for prescription drugs, including 
                cancer drugs, at $2,000 a year.

                Finally, we are also joining with advocates to raise 
                awareness about the life-saving importance of breast 
                cancer screenings. Jill has dedicated herself to this 
                work since 1993, when four of her friends were 
                diagnosed with breast cancer in just 1 year. She later 
                founded the Biden Breast Health Initiative, which 
                educated high school girls in Delaware about breast 
                health and encouraged them to spread the word to their 
                own family members. As First Lady, she has traveled the 
                country to encourage everyone to get the cancer 
                screenings they need. Nearly 10 million life-saving 
                screenings were missed during the pandemic. The First 
                Lady and I call on all Americans to make sure they are 
                caught up.

                As so many families know too well, cancer can rip lives 
                apart forever. Beating it is one of the biggest things 
                we can do--as individuals and together as a Nation. 
                This work transcends party and politics, and there is 
                nothing we cannot do when we come together as 
                Americans. For all those we have lost and for the ones 
                we can save, let us rededicate ourselves this month to 
                ending cancer and keep building this moonshot into a 
                movement worthy of the precious lives at stake.

                More information on breast cancer is available at 
                cancer.gov/types/breast. Information specialists at the 
                National Cancer Institute are also available to help 
                answer cancer-related questions in English and Spanish 
                at 1-800-422-6237. Additionally, the Centers for 
                Disease Control and Prevention's National Breast and 
                Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program provides breast 
                cancer screenings and diagnostic services to those with 
                low incomes who are uninsured or otherwise qualify for 
                the program. Americans can learn more about this 
                program at cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/screenings.htm.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of 
                the United States of America, by virtue of the 
                authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws 
                of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 2022 
                as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I encourage 
                citizens, government agencies, private businesses, 
                nonprofit organizations, and other interested groups to 
                join in activities that will increase awareness of what 
                Americans can do to prevent and control breast cancer, 
                and pay tribute to those who have lost their lives to 
                this disease.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirtieth day of September, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                seventh.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

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