Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§280g–2 Childhood Malignancies

Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER II — GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part P — Additional Programs › § 280g–2

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Health and Human Services, working with the CDC and NIH directors, must study environmental and other risk factors for childhood cancers. That includes bone cancers, leukemias, brain tumors, lymphomas, soft tissue sarcomas, and other malignant tumors. The Secretary must also run projects to improve outcomes and treat secondary problems like limb loss, anemia, rehabilitation, and palliative care. Projects can be done directly or by funding grants or contracts. Work must expand national cancer tracking, create a standard way for doctors, hospitals, clinics, and States to report childhood cancer cases and related data, and support the National Limb Loss Information Center. The Secretary must coordinate with other federal public health agencies. "Childhood cancer" means many different kinds of cancers that vary by type, location, origin, race, sex, and age. Funds were authorized as needed for fiscal years 2001 through 2005.

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Title 42, §280g–2

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(a)In general

The Secretary, acting as appropriate through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall study environmental and other risk factors for childhood cancers (including skeletal malignancies, leukemias, malignant tumors of the central nervous system, lymphomas, soft tissue sarcomas, and other malignant neoplasms) and carry out projects to improve outcomes among children with childhood cancers and resultant secondary conditions, including limb loss, anemia, rehabilitation, and palliative care. Such projects shall be carried out by the Secretary directly and through awards of grants or contracts.

(b)Certain activities

Activities under subsection (a) include—

(1)the expansion of current demographic data collection and population surveillance efforts to include childhood cancers nationally;

(2)the development of a uniform reporting system under which treating physicians, hospitals, clinics, and States report the diagnosis of childhood cancers, including relevant associated epidemiological data; and

(3)support for the National Limb Loss Information Center to address, in part, the primary and secondary needs of persons who experience childhood cancers in order to prevent or minimize the disabling nature of these cancers.

(c)Coordination of activities

The Secretary shall assure that activities under this section are coordinated as appropriate with other agencies of the Public Health Service that carry out activities focused on childhood cancers and limb loss.

(d)Definition

For purposes of this section, the term “childhood cancer” refers to a spectrum of different malignancies that vary by histology, site of disease, origin, race, sex, and age. The Secretary may for purposes of this section revise the definition of such term to the extent determined by the Secretary to be appropriate.

(e)Authorization of appropriations

For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2001 through 2005.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 280g–2

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110