2015 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 457 - Cancer
NRS 457.230 - Establishment and maintenance of system for reporting information; objectives; persons required to report information.
1. The Chief Medical Officer shall, pursuant to the regulations of the State Board of Health, establish and maintain a system for the reporting of information on cancer.
2. The system must include a record of the cases of cancer which occur in this state along with such information concerning the cases as may be appropriate to form the basis for:
(a) The conducting of comprehensive epidemiologic surveys of cancer and cancer-related diseases in this state; and
(b) The evaluation of the appropriateness of measures for the prevention and control of cancer.
3. Hospitals, medical laboratories and other facilities that provide screening, diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients with respect to cancer shall report information on cases of cancer to the system.
4. Physicians who diagnose or provide treatment for cancer, except for cases directly referred or previously admitted to a hospital, medical laboratory or other facility described in subsection 3, shall report information on cases of cancer to the system.
5. As used in this section, “medical laboratory” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 652.060.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 1677; A 1997, 1309)
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