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[CITE: 42USC285a-1]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
   Part C--Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes
 
                  subpart 1--national cancer institute
 
Sec. 285a-1. Cancer control programs

    The Director of the Institute shall establish and support 
demonstration, education, and other programs for the detection, 
diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer and for rehabilitation 
and counseling respecting cancer. Programs established and supported 
under this section shall include--
        (1) locally initiated education and demonstration programs (and 
    regional networks of such programs) to transmit research results and 
    to disseminate information respecting--
            (A) the detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of 
        cancer,
            (B) the continuing care of cancer patients and the families 
        of cancer patients, and
            (C) rehabilitation and counseling respecting cancer,

    to physicians and other health professionals who provide care to 
    individuals who have cancer;
        (2) the demonstration of and the education of students of the 
    health professions and health professionals in--
            (A) effective methods for the prevention and early detection 
        of cancer and the identification of individuals with a high risk 
        of developing cancer, and
            (B) improved methods of patient referral to appropriate 
        centers for early diagnosis and treatment of cancer; and

        (3) the demonstration of new methods for the dissemination of 
    information to the general public concerning the prevention, early 
    detection, diagnosis, and treatment and control of cancer and 
    information concerning unapproved and ineffective methods, drugs, 
    and devices for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and control of 
    cancer.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 412, as added Pub. L. 99-158, 
Sec. 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 832.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 285a-6, 285a-7, 285a-8 of 
this title.
