Amended in Assembly April 29, 2013

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 17

Introduced by Senators Anderson and Hernandez

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(Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom, Blumenfield, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Conway, Cooley, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Mitchell, Morrell, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. Pérez, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Salas, Skinner, Ting, Torres, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, and Yamada)

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February 28, 2013

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 17—Relative to Cancer Prevention Week.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SCR 17, as amended, Anderson. Cancer Prevention Week.

This measure would designate April 7 to 13, 2012, inclusive, as Cancer Prevention Week, and would encourage individuals to participate in the Cancer Prevention Study - 3.

Fiscal committee: no.

WHEREAS, The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention
Study - 3 is recruiting 300,000 adults across the United States to
help better understand the genetic, environmental, and lifestyle
factors that cause or prevent cancer; and

WHEREAS, In 2013, more than 1,342,000 people will live with
a history of cancer, nearly 144,800 will be diagnosed with cancer,
and nearly 55,500 will die of cancer; and

WHEREAS, From 1988 to 2010, cancer incidence rates in
California declined by 9 percent; and

WHEREAS, Despite these improvements, nearly one in two
Californians born today will develop cancer at some point in their
lives, and it is likely that one in five will die of the disease; and

WHEREAS, The exact reasons why one individual develops
cancer, and another individual with very similar life experiences
does not, are beyond scientific understanding. Just as there are
many different types of cancers, there are many factors that
contribute to an individual’s risk of developing cancer; and

WHEREAS, The goal of the American Cancer Society’s Cancer
Prevention Study - 3 is to better understand those factors that
contribute to cancer; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature declares the week of April
7 to 13, 2013, as “Cancer Prevention Week,” and encourages
individuals to participate in the Cancer Prevention Study - 3; and
be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.