Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§285a–1 Cancer Control Programs

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director must create and fund programs to find, diagnose, prevent, treat, and provide rehabilitation and counseling for people with cancer. Those programs must include three kinds of work: local education and demonstration projects and networks that share research and practical information with doctors and other health workers about cancer care; training and demonstrations for health students and professionals on prevention, early detection, finding high‑risk people, and better patient referrals; and tests of new ways to give the public information about prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and to warn about unapproved or ineffective methods, drugs, or devices.

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Title 42, §285a–1

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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.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 285a–1

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110