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title: "42 U.S.C. § 285a"
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# 42 U.S.C. § 285a - National Cancer Program
## Text
The National Cancer Program shall consist of (1) an expanded, intensified, and coordinated cancer research program encompassing the research programs conducted and supported by the Institute and the related research programs of the other national research institutes, including an expanded and intensified research program for the prevention of cancer caused by occupational or environmental exposure to carcinogens, and (2) the other programs and activities of the Institute.
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 411, as added Pub. L. 99158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 832.)