[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2558 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
S.2558
One Hundred Seventh Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two
An Act
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the collection of
data on benign brain-related tumors through the national program of
cancer registries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Benign Brain Tumor Cancer Registries
Amendment Act''.
SEC. 2. NATIONAL PROGRAM OF CANCER REGISTRIES; BENIGN BRAIN-RELATED
TUMORS AS ADDITIONAL CATEGORY OF DATA COLLECTED.
(a) In General.--Section 399B of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 280e), as redesignated by section 502(2)(A) of Public Law 106-
310 (114 Stat. 1115), is amended in subsection (a)--
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (5) as
subparagraphs (A) through (E), respectively, and indenting
appropriately;
(2) by striking ``(a) In General.--The Secretary'' and
inserting the following:
``(a) In General.--
``(1) Statewide cancer registries.--The Secretary'';
(3) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) (as so
redesignated), by striking ``population-based'' and all that
follows through ``data'' and inserting the following: ``population-
based, statewide registries to collect, for each condition
specified in paragraph (2)(A), data''; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
``(2) Cancer; benign brain-related tumors.--
``(A) In general.--For purposes of paragraph (1), the
conditions referred to in this paragraph are the following:
``(i) Each form of in-situ and invasive cancer (with
the exception of basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma of
the skin), including malignant brain-related tumors.
``(ii) Benign brain-related tumors.
``(B) Brain-related tumor.--For purposes of subparagraph
(A):
``(i) The term `brain-related tumor' means a listed
primary tumor (whether malignant or benign) occurring in
any of the following sites:
``(I) The brain, meninges, spinal cord, cauda
equina, a cranial nerve or nerves, or any other part of
the central nervous system.
``(II) The pituitary gland, pineal gland, or
craniopharyngeal duct.
``(ii) The term `listed', with respect to a primary
tumor, means a primary tumor that is listed in the
International Classification of Diseases for Oncology
(commonly referred to as the ICD-O).
``(iii) The term `International Classification of
Diseases for Oncology' means a classification system that
includes topography (site) information and histology (cell
type information) developed by the World Health
Organization, in collaboration with international centers,
to promote international comparability in the collection,
classification, processing, and presentation of cancer
statistics. The ICD-O system is a supplement to the
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and
Related Health Problems (commonly known as the ICD) and is
the standard coding system used by cancer registries
worldwide. Such term includes any modification made to such
system for purposes of the United States. Such term further
includes any published classification system that is
internationally recognized as a successor to the
classification system referred to in the first sentence of
this clause.
``(C) Statewide cancer registry.--References in this
section to cancer registries shall be considered to be
references to registries described in this subsection.''.
(b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) apply to
grants under section 399B of the Public Health Service Act for fiscal
year 2002 and subsequent fiscal years, except that, in the case of a
State that received such a grant for fiscal year 2000, the Secretary of
Health and Human Services may delay the applicability of such
amendments to the State for not more than 12 months if the Secretary
determines that compliance with such amendments requires the enactment
of a statute by the State or the issuance of State regulations.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.