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Below version is available in Word here so you can customize it or just copy the text and paste it into any word processing software that you are using. Here is a summary of the bill and here is the full text of 2790 including senator introductions of the bill. Addresses and phones for senators here.

S. 2790 The Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act

Dear Senator ,

Please co-sponsor one of the most important bills before you, S. 2790, the Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act. 30 leading cancer organizations and 38 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers endorsed this bill as vital to helping eliminate the terrorist within hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Currently and in most cases cancer treatment is more painful and horrible than the disease itself. Currently most cancer survivors do not have access to care plans and survivorship plans. S.2790 will provide resources for improved information, care and informed decision making.

Please become involved and co-sponsor S. 2790, an issue so vital to hundreds of thousands of families who face the challenges of living with and fighting cancer.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your Address]
[City, State ZIP]

HERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE BILL

3/31/2008--Introduced.

Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of comprehensive cancer care planning services to provide individuals diagnosed with cancer a plan that details all aspects of the care to be provided. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish standards for such services.

Directs the Secretary to conduct a two-year demonstration project under which Medicare payments will be made for comprehensive cancer care symptom management services furnished by an eligible entity in accordance with a described plan.

Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities to: (1) establish new, or expand existing, palliative care and symptom management programs for cancer patients; (2) improve the quality of graduate and postgraduate training of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers in palliative care and symptom management for such patients; and (3) improve the quality of continuing professional education provided to qualified individuals regarding palliative care and symptom management for cancer patients.

Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a program of grants for research on palliative care, symptom management, communication skills, and other end-of-life topics for such patients

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