Bill Text: CA SCR89 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Lynch Syndrome Hereditary Cancer Public Awareness Day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-04-02 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 12, Statutes of 2014. [SCR89 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SCR89-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 89	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  12
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  APRIL 2, 2014
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  MARCH 10, 2014
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wolk

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   Relative to Lynch Syndrome Hereditary Cancer Public Awareness Day.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 89, Wolk. Lynch Syndrome Hereditary Cancer Public Awareness
Day.
   This measure would recognize and support the importance of public
awareness and education regarding Lynch syndrome by declaring March
22, 2014, as Lynch Syndrome Hereditary Cancer Public Awareness Day.



   WHEREAS, Lynch syndrome is caused by a genetic defect to a
mismatch repair gene which is intended to correct errors which occur
in DNA replication; and
   WHEREAS, These errors create a very high lifetime risk of
contracting various cancers, including up to 82 percent for
colorectal cancer and 60 percent for endometrial cancer, as well as
higher than average risk of cancers of the ovaries, the pancreas, the
bladder, the kidney, the gastric tract, the hepatobiliary tract, the
prostate, the breast, the skin, and the brain; and
   WHEREAS, These cancers often occur at a much younger than average
age and are often aggressive leading to cancer metastases in two to
three years, as opposed to spontaneous cancers; and
   WHEREAS, One in every 440 persons are projected to be affected by
Lynch syndrome, which includes approximately 86,450 Californians; and

   WHEREAS, Less than 5 percent of those persons are currently
diagnosed; and
   WHEREAS, In 2013, in the State of California, it was projected
that 14,115 new cases of colorectal cancer were expected to occur,
and 6,250 cases of uterine cancer were expected to occur, of which 3
to 5 percent of those cases would be the direct result of Lynch
syndrome; and
   WHEREAS, Genetic counseling and testing could identify these
individuals and afford the opportunity for preventative measures of
annual cancer screenings in which these cancers could be removed or
treated before becoming life threatening; and
   WHEREAS, These interventions are the closest thing to the
equivalent of a cure of Lynch syndrome hereditary cancers and can
protect families and save lives; and
   WHEREAS, Education and public awareness can encourage individuals
to learn their family histories of cancer and discuss them with their
physicians, thereby saving tens of thousands of California lives
from the threat of hereditary cancers; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature recognize and support the
importance of public awareness and education regarding Lynch syndrome
by declaring March 22, 2014, as Lynch Syndrome Hereditary Cancer
Public Awareness Day; and it be further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.