Issue Position: Fighting Cancer
Issue Position
Issues: Science Health and Health Care
Senator Jon Tester is taking aim at one of the leading causes of death among Montana women: breast cancer.
Tester, who recently joined the bipartisan Senate Cancer Coalition, is backing a bipartisan bill that establishes a 10-person commission to examine new strategies to defeat breast cancer by 2020.
Jon is also successfully pushed to make it easier for military service members, retirees, and their families to receive life-saving breast cancer screenings.
And Senator Tester Tester is co-sponsoring the bipartisan Mobile Mammography Promotion Act. The bill allows mobile mammography vehicles to buy fuel without paying the federal gas tax, helping health care providers screen more women for breast cancer in rural areas.
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