Cancer Prevention

Spring 2007
Issue 9


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Cancer Prevention and the Uninsured

Arsenic and Cancer: A Crisis in Bangladesh

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Federal Legislation


HR 119: to require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations.
http://thomas.loc.gov

HR 715: to provide funding for programs at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences regarding breast cancer in younger women and for other purposes.
http://thomas.loc.gov

HR 758: Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007.
http://thomas.loc.gov

HR 945: to require the FDA to conduct consumer testing to determine the appropriateness of current labeling requirements for indoor tanning devices and determine whether such requirements provide sufficient information to consumers regarding the risks that the use of such devices pose for the development of irreversible damage to the skink, including skin cancer, and for other purposes.
http://thomas.loc.gov

HR 1030: to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program to provide screenings and treatment for cancer to minority or underserved populations, and for other purposes.
http://thomas.loc.gov

HR 1078: to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of comprehensive cancer care planning under the Medicare Program and to improve the care furnished to individuals diagnosed with cancer by establishing a Medicare hospice care demonstration program and grants programs for cancer palliative care and symptom management programs, provider education, and related research.
http://thomas.loc.gov

HR 1132: to protect the public health by providing the FDA with certain authority to regulate tobacco products.
http://thomas.loc.gov

HR 1157: to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of research centers regarding environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer.
http://thomas.loc.gov

HR 1190: National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2007.
http://thomas.loc.gov

HR 1132: to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to community cancer care by Medicare beneficiaries.
http://thomas.loc.gov

HR 1236: to make permanent the authority of the US Postal Service to issue a special postage stamp to support breast cancer research.
http://thomas.loc.gov

HR 1440: to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish an Office of Men’s Health.
http://thomas.loc.gov

S 459: Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007.
http://thomas.loc.gov

S 579: to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of research centers regarding environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer.
http://thomas.loc.gov

S 597: to extend the special postage stamp for breast cancer research for two years.
http://thomas.loc.gov

S 624: National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2007.
http://thomas.loc.gov

S 625: to protect the public health by providing the FDA with certain authority to regulate tobacco products.
http://thomas.loc.gov

S 640: to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish an Office of Men’s Health.
http://thomas.loc.gov

S 668: to require the FDA to conduct consumer testing to determine the appropriateness of current labeling requirements for indoor tanning devices and determine whether such requirements provide sufficient information to consumers regarding the risks that the use of such devices pose for the development of irreversible damage to the skink, including skin cancer, and for other purposes.
http://thomas.loc.gov



 
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