- Assembly Bill No. 599-Committee on Health and Human Services
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- AN ACT relating to cancer; revising provisions governing the system for the reporting of information on cancer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
[Approved July 8, 1997]
- THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. NRS 457.230 is hereby amended to read as follows:
457.230 1. The state health officer shall, pursuant to the regulations of the state board of health, establish and maintain a system for the reporting of information on cancer.
2. The system must include a record of the cases of cancer which occur in this state along with such information concerning the cases as may be appropriate to form the basis for:
(a) [Conduct] The conducting of comprehensive epidemiologic surveys of cancer and cancer-related diseases in [the] this state; and
(b) [Evaluation] The evaluation of the appropriateness of measures for the prevention and control of cancer.
3. Hospitals, medical laboratories and other facilities that provide screening, diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients with respect to cancer shall report information on cases of cancer to the system.
4. Physicians who diagnose or provide treatment for cancer, except for cases directly referred or previously admitted to a hospital, medical laboratory or other facility described in subsection 3, shall report information on cases of cancer to the system.
5. As used in this section, "medical laboratory" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 652.060.
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.
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