PROTECT U.S. CANCER SURVEILLANCE: URGE YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO TAKE ACTION – New Request!

NCRA and our partners continue to work to protect federal funding to support CDC’s National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and the NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program in the Administration’s proposed fiscal year 2026 budget. In that budget, CDC-NPCR is eliminated, and the NCI-SEER Program is severely impacted by the proposed 40% funding cuts to NCI. With these two federal programs serving as the backbone of cancer surveillance in the United States, please join us by sending our messages to your Senators and Representative to be sure that US cancer surveillance remains in place and receives appropriate funding.

These are new letters that we are sending with a more specific message given new information from the US Senate. Our previous campaign was successful and the US Senate Appropriations Committee supported our requests, but more work needs to be done to ensure that the US House of Representatives continues that momentum. This means ensuring the full Senate hears how much Senate Appropriations Committee leadership was appreciated and that we need the full Senate to vote in support of Appropriations' recommendations as well.

With that, we need your advocacy to support two letters following each link below. The top link will bring you to a simple process to add your contact information and then easily submit your letter to your House member. Once that activity is complete, please return to this page to follow a similar process to write to your Senators by following the second link.

Both steps will take less than 5 minutes and will be sure our messages are heard:

Support cancer surveillance funding at the same levels recently approved by the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations for FY 2026. Specifically:

• Continuance of the CDC’s National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and fund it at $53.4 million
• Fund the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at $7.374 billion, which will fully support NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program.

Step 1:
Follow this link and take a few simple steps to write to your House of Representatives Member

Step 2:
Follow this link and take a few simple steps to write to your two US Senators

Thank you for using your voice to make a difference!