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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

PROCLAIMING MAY OF 2025, TO BE "BRAIN TUMOR AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

     Introduced By: Senator Melissa A. Murray

     Date Introduced: May 05, 2025

     Referred To: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar

     WHEREAS, Over an estimated one million Americans are currently living with brain

tumors; and around 90,000 people are diagnosed with a primary brain tumor every year; and

     WHEREAS, Approximately 24,820 people will receive a malignant brain tumor cancer

diagnosis in 2025, and an estimated 18,330 people will die; and

     WHEREAS, The relative survival rate in the United States for all people following

diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor is only 35.7 percent, with the deadliest and most common

form of brain cancer, Glioblastoma, having an average survival rate of only 7.1 percent and

median survival rate of only 9 months; and

     WHEREAS, The treatment of brain tumors presents 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 limb and organ 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 currently; 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 hereby

declares May of 2025, 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. Bob Kruchten, Chair, and Ms. Kelly Sitkin,

President & CEO, of the American Brain Tumor Association.

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