Title 13 — Health and Economic Welfare Services
14 chapters · 196 sections in this title.
A.S.C.A. § 13.0401 Establishment
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A population-based cancer registry is hereby established. The Department of Health shall administer and maintain the cancer registry established under this section. History: 1998, PL 25-22; amd 2010, PL 31-15 § 1.
A.S.C.A. § 13.0402 Cancer registry data and confidentiality
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The Department of Health shall collect, for each form of in-situ and invasive cancer (with the exception of basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin), data concerning: (1) demographic information about each case of cancer; (2) information on the industrial or occupation…
A.S.C.A. § 13.0403 Promulgation of rules
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The Department of Health shall develop rules necessary to: (1) ensure complete reporting by hospitals, laboratories, physicians and other health care practitioners diagnosing, or providing treatment for cancer patients; (2) ensure access to all records that would identify cases o…
A.S.C.A. § 13.0404 Interstate Sharing of Information-Confidentiality
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(a) In order to obtain complete information on American Samoa patients who have been diagnosed or treated in other territories and states and in order to provide information to other states, territories, cancer registries, federal cancer control agencies, and health researchers r…