PUBLIC LAW 107-260—OCT. 29, 2002 116 STAT. 1743 Public Law 107-260 107th Congress 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. Oct. 29, 2002 [8. 2558] Benign Brain Tumor Cancer Registries Amendment Act. 42 USC 201 note.
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