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 102 STAT. 3054

PUBLIC LAW 100-607—NOV. 4, 1988 percent for programs respecting blood diseases and blood resources. "(B) For the program of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute under section 419 there is authorized to be appropriated $101,000,000 for Hscal year 1989 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1990.".

(b) APPLICABILTTY OP CERTAIN PROVISIONS TO NURSES AND ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS.—Section 408(b) (42 U.S.C. 284c(b)) is

amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(5) For fiscal year 1989 and subsequent fiscal years, amounts made available to the National Institutes of Health shall be available for payment of nurses and allied health professionals in accordance with payment authorities, scheduling options, benefits, and other authorities provided under chapter 73 of title 38, United States Code, for nurses of the Veterans' Administration.".

Subtitle E—National Cancer Institute SEC. 121. PURPOSE.

Section 410 (42 U.S.C. 285) is amended by inserting ", rehabilitation from cancer," after "treatment of cancer". SEC. 122. SPECIAL AUTHORITIES OF THE DIRECTOR

Public information.

Section 413 (42 U.S.C. 285a-20i))) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A)(i) in the first sentence, by striking "information and education center" and inserting "information and education program"; and (ii) in the second sentence, by inserting after "between the Institute" the following: "and the public and between the Institute and"; and (B) by inserting "(1)" after the subsection designation and adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(2) In carrying out paragraph (1), the Director of the Institute shall— "(A) provide public and patient information and education programs, providing information that will help individuals take personal steps to reduce their risk of cancer, to make them aware of early detection techniques and to motivate appropriate utilization of those techniques, to help individuals deal with cancer if it strikes, and to provide information to improve longterm survival; "(B) continue and expand programs to provide physicians and the public with state-of-the-art information on the treatment of particular forms of cancers, and to identify those clinical trials that might benefit patients while advancing knowledge of cancer treatment; "(C) assess the incorporation of state-of-the-art cancer treatments into clinical practice and the extent to which cancer patients receive such treatments and include the results of such assessments in the biennial reports required under section 407; "(D) maintain and operate the International Cancer Research Data Bank, which shall collect, catalog, store, and disseminate insofar as feasible the results of cancer research and treatment underteiken in any country for the use of any person involved in cancer research and treatment in any country; and

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