Findings

Congress finds the following: (1) Each year, 2,000,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with cancer. (2) Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, with 127,070 deaths in 2023 alone. Despite its prevalence, only 4.5 percent of eligible individuals were screened for lung cancer in 2022. (3) Mobile cancer screening units have proven effective in increasing access to essential screenings, including for breast cancer and more recently lung cancer. (4) Nationally, only 26.6 percent of lung cancer cases are diagnosed at an early stage when the 5-year survival rate is 63 percent.