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| 2025 -- S 1023 Enacted 05/20/2025 |
| 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: Senators Murray, Lauria, Zurier, Britto, Mack, Felag, Lawson, McKenney, Rogers, and E Morgan |
| Date Introduced: May 20, 2025 |
| 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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