Congress finds about 1 in 5 patients survive 5 years
To require the Government Accountability Office to produce a report on esophageal cancer, and for other purposes, section 2, Sec. 2.
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Congress finds about 1 in 5 patients survive 5 years
The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“esophageal cancer is among the deadliest of cancers, with only about 1 in 5 patients surviving 5 years”
The fourth of the section's eleven findings. It states a five year survival figure of about one in five, and calls the disease among the deadliest of cancers. The tenth finding gives a higher figure, as high as 49 percent, for patients diagnosed at an early stage.
What the document actually says
“esophageal cancer is among the deadliest of cancers, with only about 1 in 5 patients surviving 5 years”
That sentence, in plain words
Congress says this is one of the deadliest cancers. Only about one in five people live five more years.
What this is about
Doctors track how many people live five years after they learn they are sick. That number is low here.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
Gerald E. Connolly Esophageal Cancer Awareness Act of 2025, Public Law 119-96, sec. 2, 140 Stat. 834 (2026). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ96/html/PLAW-119publ96.htm
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“Congress finds about 1 in 5 patients survive 5 years,” Gerald E. Connolly Esophageal Cancer Awareness Act of 2025, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/gerald-e-connolly-esophageal-cancer-awareness-act/proposal/sec02-one-in-five-survive-five-years/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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