National Cancer Amendments - Revises the Public Health Service Act by authorizing the Director of the National Cancer Institute to provide and contract for a program to disseminate and interpret for practitioners and other health professionals, scientists, and the general public new scientific and other information respecting the cause, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
Increases the authorized appropriations for the carrying out of the National Cancer Program.
Makes various technical and conforming changes in the Public Health Service Act.
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to require appropriate scientific peer review of (1) applications made after the effective date of such regulations for grants under this Act for biomedical and behavioral research; and (2) biomedical and behavioral research and development contract projects to be administered after such effective date through an institute established under this Act, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, or the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Reported to House from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, H. Rept. 93-954.
Reported to House from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, H. Rept. 93-954.
Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended, roll call #203 (390-1).
Roll Call #203 (House)Measure passed House, amended, roll call #203 (390-1).
Roll Call #203 (House)Measure laid on table in House, S. 2893 passed in lieu.
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