; and (2) play an outsized role in the prevention and detection of cancer in order to serve the goal of reducing health care disparities among low-income women and women of color, decrease health care spending, and expand health literacy, access, and education about the benefits of regular preventive cancer screening for women. 3. Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women under the age of 54, and the American Cancer Society recommends that women in their 20s and 30s have a clinical breast exam at least every 3 years. (2) Ovarian cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system, but it accounts for only about 3 percent of all cancers in women. (3) The cancers that most frequently impact women include breast, uterine, ovarian, and cervical cancer, and there were 314,257 new cases of these cancers in 2013. (4) Rates of incidence and death for gynecologic cancers by race and ethnicity show that, while for some cancers, like ovarian cancer, the rates of incidence and death are similar among all races, for other cancers, like cervical cancer, women of color have a disproportionate rate of incidence. While the incidence of uterine cancer is higher for White women than for women of color, rates of death for uterine cancer are 2 times higher for Black women than for White women. (5) Prevention and cancer screening are the best approaches to protecting women from cancer and ensuring early detection and life-saving treatment. Many deaths from breast and cervical cancers could be avoided if cancer screening rates increased among women at risk. Deaths from these cancers occur disproportionately among women who are uninsured or underinsured. (6) Due to enhanced screening, cervical cancer, which used to be the leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States, is now a much more preventable and treatable cancer. (7) Increased access to education, information, and preventive cancer screening increase women’s ability to survive