The Framework of the Amended Cancer Control Act
Amano, S.
Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer and ChemoTherapy 44(11): 963-966
2017
ISSN/ISBN: 0385-0684 PMID: 29138367 Document Number: 694699
The Cancer Control Act approved in 2006 was amended in December 2016 by the nonpartisan federation of the National Assembly, while meeting the requests from cancer patient groups. In the chapter on the basic ideas, it is said that cancer control needs to advance the development ofthe social environment that enables cancer patients to run a smooth social life and employment support for cancer patients and promotion of cancer education are newly stated. In the chapter on the basic measures, palliative care, rehabilitation, the research on rare cancer and intractable cancer, the treatment ofchildhood cancer patients and the improvement of educational environment for those patients, and the support for private organizations and cancer patient groups are newly stated. Regarding cancer genome medical care, new legislation is expected.