[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2558 Referred in House (RFH)]
2d Session
S. 2558
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 4, 2002
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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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.
Passed the Senate August 1, 2002.
Attest:
JERI THOMSON,
Secretary.