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Gerald E. Connolly Esophageal Cancer Awareness Act of 2025Section 2 › Proposal

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. Written by .

Congress finds diagnoses up more than 700 percent in recent decades

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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”

To require the Government Accountability Office to produce a report on esophageal cancer, and for other purposes, Sec. 2

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”

To require the Government Accountability Office to produce a report on esophageal cancer, and for other purposes, Sec. 2
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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