Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) introduced the FIRE Cancer Act on Feb. 27. The piece of legislation seeks to increase grant dollars available to local fire departments, specifically earmarked for cancer prevention, “including providing multi-cancer early detection testing or other forms of preventative tests.”
In this episode of The Cancer Letter Podcast, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, Jacquelyn Cobb, managing editor, discuss the Sept. 23 meeting of the FDA Molecular and Clinical Genetics Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, during which the panel voted in favor of Galleri, the multi-cancer detection test from GRAIL Inc., to become the first multi-cancer detection test to receive regulatory approval.
