Cancer Prevention Funding: HHS & State Tracking

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WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services will renew funding to states for cancer prevention and tracking efforts, alleviating anxieties among local officials about the future of their work.

Over 50 notices had gone out as of Monday, an HHS spokesperson said. The rest of the awards will be sent to states, tribes, and other contractors “no later than early next week,” press secretary Emily Hilliard told STAT in an email.

State and local officials had been bracing for bad news in recent weeks because they had received little to no information from federal health agencies about key cancer programs. For many states, money from last year ran out over the weekend.

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