§ 2401-A — Skin cancer reporting

New York § 2401-A

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law PBH: Public Health
• Title 1: General Provisions
• Art. 24: Control of Malignant Diseases

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§ 2401-a. Skin cancer reporting. The department shall submit a written\nreport every three years, commencing January first, two thousand\neighteen, to the governor and the legislature on the incidence of skin\ncancer in the state of New York, by type and as a percentage of the\noverall number of reported cases of all types of cancer, as well as the\nassociated causes of each type of skin cancer, if such causes are\nreadily ascertainable. Such report shall be generated based on data\ngathered and reviewed pursuant to this title, and shall provide\ninformation which is as current as practicable; provided, however, a\nretrospective of the past ten years of information collected pursuant to\nthis title and predominant trends associated with such information, as\nconcerns skin cancer and its associated causes, shall be a component of\nsuch report and each report submitted thereafter. At the discretion of\nthe commissioner, such reports may provide additional information other\nthan the information required by this section. The first report created\npursuant to this section shall be submitted one year after the effective\ndate of this section. The reports generated pursuant to this section\nshall be made available to the public on the department's website.\n