---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 103"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "103"
heading: "Cancer Control Month"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/103"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies"
  - "Part A — Observances and Ceremonies"
  - "Chapter 1 — Patriotic and National Observances"
---

# §103. Cancer Control Month

- (a) **General.—** The President is requested—
  - (1) to issue each year a proclamation designating April as Cancer Control Month; and
  - (2) to invite each year the chief executive officers of the States, territories, and possessions of the United States to issue proclamations designating April as Cancer Control Month.
- (b) **Contents of Proclamations.—** As part of those proclamations, the chief executive officers and President are requested to invite the medical profession, the press, and all agencies and individuals interested in a national program for the control of cancer by education and other cooperative means to unite during Cancer Control Month in a public dedication to the program and in a concerted effort to make the people of the United States aware of the need for the program.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1255.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 103 | 36:150. | Mar. 28, 1938, ch. 56, 52 Stat. 148. |

In subsection (a)(2), the words “chief executive officers” are substituted for “Governors” for clarity and consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code.