Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§285a–1 Cancer control programs

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part Part C— - Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes › Subpart subpart 1— - national cancer institute › § 285a–1

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director must create and fund programs that test and teach ways to find, diagnose, prevent, and treat cancer. The programs must also help with rehabilitation and counseling for patients and their families. Part of this work will be local education and demonstration projects and regional networks that share research and information. The Director must also train health students and professionals in how to prevent cancer, detect it early, spot people at high risk, and refer patients to the right treatment centers. Programs must try new ways to give the public clear information about preventing, finding, diagnosing, treating, and controlling cancer, and warn about unapproved or ineffective methods, drugs, or devices.

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Title 42, §285a–1

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

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,

(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.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 285a–1

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73