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cally exploited, may significantly advance the time when more adequate preventive and therapeutic capabilities are available to cope with cancer; (3) that cancer is a leading cause of death in the United States; (4) that the present state of our understanding of cancer is a consequence of broad advances across the full scope of the biomedical sciences; (5) that a great opportunity is offered as a result of recent ad\'ances in the knowledge of this dread disease to conduct energetically a national program against cancer; (6) that in order to provide for the most effective attack on cancer it is important to use all of the biomedical resources of the National Institutes of Health; and (7) that the programs of the research institutes which comprise the National Institutes of Health have made it possible to bring into being the most productive scientific community centered upon health and disease that the world has ever known. (b) I t is the purpose of this Act to enlarge the authorities of the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health in order to advance the national effort against cancer. N A T I O N A L CANCER PROGRAM
SEC. 3. (a) Part A of title IV of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding after section 406 the following new sections:
Jl.H^'lJ^^J' 42 USC 28*1.
"NATIONAL CANCER PROGRAM
"SEC. 407. (a) The Director of the National Cancer Institute shall coordinate all of the activities of the National Institutes of Health relating to cancer with the National Cancer Program. " (b) In carrying out the National Cancer Program, the Director of the National Cancer Institute shall: " (1) With the advice of the National Cancer Advisory Board, plan and develop an expanded, intensified, and coordinated cancer research program encompassing the programs of the National Cancer Institute, related programs of the other research institutes, and other Federal and non-Federal programs. "(2) Expeditiously utilize existing research facilities and personnel of the National Institutes of Health for accelerated exploI'ation of opportunities in areas of special promise. "(3) Encourage and coordinate cancer research by industrial concerns where such concerns evidence a particular capability for such research. "(4) Collect, analyze, and disseminate all data useful in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer, including the establishment of an international cancer research data bank to collect, catalog, store, and disseminate insofar as feasible the results of cancer research undertaken in any country for the use of any person involved in cancer research in any country.
National cancer
Institute Director, d u t i e s.
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