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| 2024 -- S 3073 Enacted 05/14/2024 |
| S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N |
| DECLARING MAY OF 2024 TO BE "BRAIN TUMOR AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND |
Introduced By: Senator Ryan W. Pearson |
| Date Introduced: May 13, 2024 |
| WHEREAS, An estimated one million Americans are currently living with brain and |
| other nervous system tumors; and |
| WHEREAS, Approximately 25,400 people will receive a malignant brain tumor |
| diagnosis in 2024, and an estimated 18,760 people will die from this cancer in 2024 alone; and |
| WHEREAS, Brain and other nervous system cancer is the ninth leading cause of cancer |
| death in the United States; and |
| WHEREAS, The relative survival rate in the United States for all people following |
| diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor is only 33.4 percent, with the deadliest and most common |
| form of brain cancer, Glioblastoma, having an average survival length of approximately one year; |
| and |
| WHEREAS, The treatment of brain tumors present significant challenges because of the |
| brain’s uniquely complex and fragile nature; and |
| WHEREAS, Brain tumors can have lasting and life-altering physical, cognitive, and |
| psychological impacts on a person’s life; and |
| WHEREAS, Brain tumors affect the primary organ in the human body that controls not |
| only cognitive ability, but the actions of every other organ and limb in the body, leading to brain |
| tumors being described as a disease that affects the whole individual; and |
| WHEREAS, Daunting obstacles remain to the development of new treatments, and no |
| strategies for the screening or early detection of brain tumors exist; and |
| WHEREAS, A need for greater public awareness of brain tumors exists, including |
| awareness of the difficulties associated with research on brain tumors and the opportunities for |
| advances in research and treatment; now, therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby recognizes the |
| importance of awareness and the urgent need for further research into brain tumors and does |
| hereby declare May of 2024 to be “Brain Tumor Awareness Month” in the State of Rhode Island; |
| and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to Mr. Ram Subramanian, Chair, and Mr. Ralph |
| DeVitto, President & CEO, of the American Brain Tumor Association. |
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