---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285a"
heading: "National Cancer Program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285a"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part C — Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes"
  - "Subpart 1 — national cancer institute"
---

# §285a. National Cancer Program


The National Cancer [Program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) shall consist of (1) an expanded, intensified, and coordinated cancer research [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) encompassing the research [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) conducted and supported by the Institute and the related research [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) of the other national research institutes, including an expanded and intensified research [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) for the prevention of cancer caused by occupational or environmental exposure to carcinogens, and (2) the other [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) and activities of the Institute.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 411, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 832.)