3.0.0 2877 2020-02-10T17:02:00Z 2020-02-10T17:02:00Z Senate S S 2008-04-17 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-04-17T17:48:06Z Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Research and Quality of Life Act of 2007 110 4450 HR 2007-12-11 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2008-04-17 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2008-04-17 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3146-3147) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2008-04-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R N Health Cancer Case management Child health Clinics Comprehensive health care Economics and Public Finance Education Families Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Federal aid to research Health information systems Health surveys Higher education Medical education Medical research Medical statistics Mental health services Minority health Preventive medicine Quality of care Quality of life Research grants Science, Technology, Communications Health 00 2008-04-17 Introduced in Senate 2008-07-11T21:01:13Z Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Research and Quality of Life Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to expand and intensify CDC's cancer control programs. Requires the Secretary to: (1) provide guidance to states, in collaboration with the Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), on interventions that may be incorporated into state cancer control programs to improve the long-term health status of childhood cancer survivors; (2) encourage states to incorporate strategies for improving their care into their comprehensive cancer plans; (3) collaborate with the NCI Director to improve or develop systems for tracking cancer survivors; and (4) enhance control programs to include a focus on childhood cancer survivorship.

Directs the NCI Director to: (1) coordinate National Institutes of Health (NIH) activities regarding cancer survivorship; (2) make grants for research regarding pediatric cancer survivors and health disparities in cancer survivorship within minority populations; (3) conduct or support research to evaluate follow-up care for childhood cancer survivors; and (4) make grants to establish pilot programs to develop, study, or evaluate model systems for monitoring and caring for cancer survivors.

Directs the Secretary to make grants to: (1) establish or improve training programs for health care professionals to improve follow-up care for young cancer survivors and to ensure that such care is linguistically and culturally competent; (2) pay costs incurred during the first four years of operating a clinic for comprehensive long-term followup services for childhood cancer survivors; and (3) improve physical and psychosocial care for such survivors.

]]> Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Research and Quality of Life Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Research and Quality of Life Act of 2008 Display Title Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Research and Quality of Life Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to improve and enhance research and programs on cancer survivorship, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2008-04-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2877is/xml/BILLS-110s2877is.xml 2008-04-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.