Over the past week, as cancer control experts scoured through a confidential budget document called the “passback” budget, they haven’t been able to find any trace of a relatively small but highly impactful program that funds state cancer registries.
For more than a year, professional societies have been trying to fill the role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a panel that develops recommendations related to vaccines, including those that prevent cancer.
