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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2024

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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

     Referred To: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar

     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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