California Health and Safety Code

§ 104312

HSC § 104312 Effective Jan 1, 1999Div. 103 · Part 1 · Ch. 6

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)California has the highest incidence of and death from prostate cancer, and due to the increased public awareness of the disease, the timing is appropriate to establish programs for prostate cancer education and early detection services for uninsured men. Despite the advances in the treatment and detection of prostate cancer, the death rate of this disease continues to climb at an alarming rate--a rate higher than breast cancer and many other high profile diseases.

(b)Approximately 200,000 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed this year.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 939, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1999.