Bill Text: NY K00603 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim November 2019, as Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month in the State of New York

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 42-27)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-18 - adopted [K00603 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-K00603-Introduced.html

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Assembly Resolution No. 603

BY: M. of A. Rosenthal L

            memorializing  Governor  Andrew  M.  Cuomo  to
        proclaim  November  2019,   as   Pancreatic   Cancer
        Awareness Month in the State of New York

  WHEREAS, The State of New York takes great pride in participating in
months designated to raise awareness of important issues; and

  WHEREAS,  November  2019  will  be  observed  as  Pancreatic  Cancer
Awareness  Month  to  create  awareness  of   pancreatic   cancer,   the
third-leading  cause  of cancer-related death among men and women in the
United States, and is anticipated to become the second leading cause  by
2020; and

  WHEREAS,  Pancreatic cancer has the lowest relative survival rate of
all the cancers tracked by both the  American  Cancer  Society  and  the
National Cancer Institute; and

  WHEREAS,  74  percent  of  pancreatic cancer patients die within the
first year of their diagnosis and only seven percent survive  more  than
five years; and

  WHEREAS,  Every  year  over 46,000 people will be diagnosed and more
than 45,000 people will die of pancreatic cancer in the  United  States;
that  means  approximately one in every 72 men and women born today will
be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in their lifetime,  and  over  2,000
New York residents yearly will die from the disease; and

  WHEREAS, There has been no significant improvement in survival rates
in  the  last  40  years  and pancreatic cancer research is still in the
earliest scientific stages; and

  WHEREAS, The number of new pancreatic cancer cases and the number of
deaths caused by the disease are increasing; the expected number of  new
pancreatic  cancer  cases  is  projected  to increase by 55% between the
years 2010 and 2030; and

  WHEREAS,  When  symptoms  of  pancreatic  cancer  generally  present
themselves,  it  is  often too late for an optimistic prognosis, and the
average survival rate is only five to seven months; and

  WHEREAS, People of  Eastern  European  Jewish  and  African-American
descent  are  diagnosed  at  a  higher  frequency  than  the rest of the
population; and

  WHEREAS, Additional risk factors include but  are  not  limited  to:
smoking,  obesity,  recent on-set diabetes, family history of pancreatic
cancer and pancreatitis; and

  WHEREAS,  Pancreatic   cancer   research   is   currently   severely
underfunded  as  compared to other cancers with similar mortality; it is
urgent that we focus on this matter; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its  deliberations  to
memorialize  Governor  Andrew  M.  Cuomo  to  proclaim November 2019, as
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month in the State of New York, and to  urge
its  citizens to educate themselves about pancreatic cancer and the need
for research funding, early detection methods, effective treatments, and
prevention programs; and be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the  State  of
New York.