12 2 STA T . 2 6 2 8PUBLIC LA W 11 0– 28 5—J UL Y 2 9, 2008 PublicLaw1 1 0–285 110 thCongres s A n Act Toamendth e PublicH ealth S e rv ice A ct to advance medical re s earch and treatments into p ediatric cancers , ensure patients and f amilies have access to information re g arding pediatric cancers and current treatments for such cancers, establish a national childhood cancer registr y , and promote public a w areness of pediatric cancer .Beit e nac te dby t h e S enate and Hous eo fR e pr esentati v es of the U nited States of Am erica in C on g ress assemb l ed ,SECTION1. S H O R T TIT L E. ThisActmaybe cite d as the ‘ ‘ C a rol i n e P ryce W al k er Con qu er Childhood Cancer Act o f20 0 8’ ’ . SEC. 2 . F IN D IN G S. Con g ress makes the follo w ing findings
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Cancer kills more children than any other disease. (2) E ach year cancer kills more children between 1 and 20 years of age than asthma , diabetes, cystic fibrosis, and A IDS , combined. ( 3 )E v ery year, over 12, 5 00 young p eople are diagnosed with cancer. ( 4 ) Each year about 2,300 children and teenagers die from cancer. (5) O ne in every 330 Americans develops cancer before age 20. ( 6 ) Some forms of childhood cancer have proven to be so resistant that even in spite of the great research strides made, most of those children die. U pto 7 5 percent of the children with cancer can now be cured. (7) The causes of most childhood cancers are not yet known. (8) Childhood cancers are mostly those of the white blood cells (leukemias), brain, bone, the lymphatic system, and tumors of the muscles, kidneys, and nervous system. Each of these behaves differently, but all are characteri z edbyan uncontrolled proliferation of abnormal cells. ( 9 ) Eighty percent of the children who are diagnosed with cancer have disease which has already spread to distant sites in the body. (10) N inety percent of children with a form of pediatric cancer are treated at one of the more than 200 Children’s Oncology G roup member institutions throughout the United States. SEC. 3 . PU RPOSES. It is the purpose of this Act to authorize appropriations to —42USC 2 80e–3anot e . 42 USC 280e–3a note. Ca r o li ne P r yc e W al k er Con qu er C h il d hood Cancer A ct o f 2008. 42 USC 20 1 note. J uly 2 9, 2008 [H . R .1 5 53 ]
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