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In the Democratic weekly radio address Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Sally Lieber and Assemblymember Kevin de León talk about how early cancer screening tests can save lives and how Lieber's legislation, Assembly Bill 1774, will expand the opportunity for cancer tests. You may listen in Englishor Spanish. The transcript is below. Hi, this is Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, Speaker Pro Tem of the California State Assembly. Here to tell you about new legislation that will help save the lives of more women in California who are diagnosed with reproductive cancers. Too many women are dying of cancer. In fact, it’s the second leading killer of women in the US. This year, close to three quarters of a million women will be diagnosed with cancer and over a quarter million women will die of the disease. Our bill will require health insurers to provide coverage for annual cancer screening exams when a woman’s doctor decides they’re necessary. No woman should be denied access to a scientifically sound medical test just because it isn’t covered by her insurance. We need this law for a very simple reason: early diagnosis means dramatically higher survival rates, so we must increase the number of women diagnosed in Stage 1, when cancers are most treatable. Let me share an example with you. Statistics for ovarian cancer show a stark reality: less than 20-percent of women are currently diagnosed in Stage 1, when there is an excellent survival rate of 93-percent for women who receive treatment.