Bill Text: NY K00670 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Resolution 670

Introduced

Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim November 2023, as Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month in the State of New York

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-16)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-07 - adopted [K00670 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-K00670-Introduced.html


Assembly Resolution No. 670

BY: M. of A. Rosenthal L

        MEMORIALIZING  Governor  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim
        November 2023, 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  2023  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
2030; 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,  The  American Cancer Society expects 64,050 people will be
diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2023, and  50,550  people  will  die
from  the disease in the United States; furthermore, the American Cancer
Society estimates that 2,940 New Yorkers will die from this disease this
year; 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  Kathy  Hochul  to  proclaim  November  2023,   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 Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of  New
York.