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Protect Cancer Patients.
Demand Congress pass the Cancer Treatment Outcome Transparency Act.
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Hospitals are keeping secrets.
They’re concealing the survival rates and side-effect rates of cancer treatments from patients (and even from other doctors).
Americans with cancer are cancer treatment consumers. They pay hospitals in exchange for the administration of cancer treatments.
Before they pay, cancer patients have the right to know how often treatments have killed cancer and how often treatment side-effects have killed or harmed other cancer patients.
Those rights are being violated.
The Cancer TOT Act will create the first National Cancer Treatment Registry tracking both survival rates and side-effect rates of FDA-approved cancer treatments.
One day, The Cancer Treatment Outcome Registry may save your life, or the life of someone you care about more than anything in the world.
There are 535 Members of Congress - 3 of them work for you.
Protect yourself, your family and every future cancer patient in the country. End hospitals’ abuse of the honor system.
Make 3 Phone Calls to the Capitol Switchboard and demand your Congressperson, Junior Senator and Senior Senator publicly commit to vote “YES” for the Cancer TOT Act.
It's easy to make 3 phone calls to demand Congress pass the Cancer TOT Act
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Call The Capitol Switchboard
Fast, efficient and simple.
Call The Capitol Switchboard three times and ask to be connected to the offices of your Congressperson, your Junior Senator and your Senior Senator.
The Capitol Switchboard is available 24 hours a day at 202-224-3121 and they can connect you to the correct Congressional offices using your zip code.
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Call Your Senators and Congressperson Directly
Prefer to call each office directly?
Use these links for phone numbers to the offices of your Congressional Representative, your Junior Senator and your Senior Senator.
After business hours? Don't worry about the time. You can leave a voicemail 24 hours a day.
List of Representatives' Phone Numbers
List of Senators' Phone Numbers
(Note: All Senate phone numbers start with 202-224)
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Can't Call? Send 3 Emails.
You can also send direct messages to your Congressperson and Senators to ask they publicly commit to vote "YES" for The Cancer TOT Act.
It's easy. Use these links:
Enter your zip code and click on the Email icon to send a message to your congressperson.
Select your state, click the "Contact" links under your Senators' names, then fill out the Email forms.
Don’t forget to ask your Senators and Congressperson to publicly commit to vote “YES” for The Cancer TOT Act.
Here are 7 Reasons The Cancer TOT Act is Necessary to Protect Cancer Patients’ Rights and Safety.
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The national cancer registry data published by the CDC and NIH is broken down by cancer type and patient demographics but is not treatment-specific.
The data is helpful for patients researching understanding overall survival likelihood. But it is useless for patients and families weighing the risks vs. benefits of different treatment protocols.
A publicly-available Cancer Treatment Outcome Registry, with filters for treatments, cancer type, survival rates, side-effect frequency and patient demographics, will vastly improve on the important but limited data currently available to Americanswith cancer.
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America’s public national cancer registries do not publish detailed safety rates (injuries or deaths during treatment) or side-effect rates (injuries or deaths post-treatment) of individual treatments or treatment protocols.
This lack of transparency prevents cancer patients and their families from confidently collaborating with their doctors on treatment plans that prioritize both survival and quality of life.
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No federal laws or registries require hospitals to disclose when cancer treatments cause patients to die or suffer catastrophic injuries.
Hospitals are essentially on the honor system.
But the honor system doesn’t work when hospitals hoard invaluable treatment outcome data to compete with each other for patients or are financially motivated to exaggerate the safety benefits of treatments that maximize hospital profits.
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Instead of collaborating with the medical community, hospitals have chosen to silo cancer treatment outcomes internally, keeping life-saving data secret from patients and even from other doctors.
This means if you are diagnosed with cancer, no matter where you seek care, your life will be needlessly endangered because every doctor in the country is in the dark about how often treatment side-effects have killed or harmed patients at other hospitals.
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Cancer patients and their families have the right to know how often treatments actually kill cancer and how often treatment side-effects have harmed other patients before they pay a hospital for a treatment.
That right is being violated.
It’s easy for hospitals to claim a treatment is effective or that side-effects are rare when hospitals can keep the success and side-effect rates of the treatments they sell hidden from their customers.
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Future cancer patients’ lives are being needlessly endangered because the overwhelming majority of past cancer patients’ survival and side-effect data is being kept secret by hospitals.
One of the largest benefits that The CanceTOR will provide is ending the unnecessary suffering of cancer patients caused by doctors and patients being unaware of how many former patients have died or suffered catastrophic side-effects from cancer treatments.
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The Cancer TOT Act will put an end to hospitals' selfish hoarding of life-saving treatment outcome data so it can be utilized by doctors and researchers to develop new therapies and improve the quality-of-life of cancer patients.
Treatment Outcome Transparency will allow doctors to craft more effective and ethical treatment protocols and remove roadblocks for cancer researchers.