Preventing Stomach Cancer in Our Nation’s Heroes Act

This bill would require the Secretary of Defense to send a report to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House within 180 days after the bill becomes law. The report would include a plan, a cost estimate, and a feasibility study for testing service members for the stomach bacteria H. pylori while they are transitioning to civilian life. The cost estimate would have to cover a testing program that uses breath and stool-based tests. The Secretary may ask physician experts, including gastroenterologists, for input in preparing the report.

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Sponsors

• Christopher H. Smith Republican sponsor
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