Congress finds diagnoses up more than 700 percent in recent decades
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 diagnoses up more than 700 percent in recent decades
The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“esophageal cancer is one of the fastest growing cancer diagnoses among all Americans, increasing more than 700 percent in recent decades”
The second of the section's eleven findings. It widens the first finding from men to all Americans and attaches a figure to the increase: more than 700 percent, over a span the finding describes only as recent decades.
What the document actually says
“esophageal cancer is one of the fastest growing cancer diagnoses among all Americans, increasing more than 700 percent in recent decades”
That sentence, in plain words
Congress says this is one of the fastest growing cancers in the country. It says cases went up more than 700 percent in recent decades.
What this is about
The first finding was about men. This one is about all people here. Both say the same thing: more cases each year.
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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 diagnoses up more than 700 percent in recent decades,” 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-seven-hundred-percent-increase/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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