; Whereas accreditation promotes access to prevention and early detection programs, cancer education, and support services; Whereas patients treated in accredited cancer programs have access to the full continuum of patient-centered care including distress screening, patient navigation, and delivery of survivorship care plans that detail treatments received and provide detailed information on future care needs; Whereas accreditation requires evaluation of the entire scope, organization, and activity of a cancer program by external peer review from specially trained surveyors who evaluate compliance with stringent standards designed to promote high-quality care; Whereas the quality reporting tools from the over 30,000,000 cases reported to the Commission on Cancer’s National Cancer Database provide feedback needed to initiate quality improvement studies which ultimately lead to implementation of quality improvements in accredited cancer programs; Whereas the cancer accreditation programs of the American College of Surgeons use data submitted to such Database to verify and improve quality of care in cancer programs and to further scientific research; and Whereas the American College of Surgeons accredited cancer programs in the United States and Puerto Rico care for approximately 70 percent of newly diagnosed cancer patients in the United States: Now, therefore, be it