Opinion: How a federal agency's blocking of a company merger threatens cancer care for veterans

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Opinion: How a federal agency's blocking of a company merger threatens cancer care for veterans
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Amid all this dedication to our military veterans, one federal agency — the Federal Trade Commission — is denying veterans access to a life-saving cancer test.

used on ships to higher cancer death rates among machinist’s mates, boiler technicians, pipe fitters and others.

Imagine then how an early detection test for cancers of the lung, pancreas, gallbladder, liver, breast and prostate — to name just a few — would be a game changer for our veterans community. If a veteran’s cancer is caught early, VA physicians would have time to integrate cancer care and mental health into a holistic plan as well as enable timely access to clinical trials, including those for rare or aggressive cancers.

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