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Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2008

Introduced: March 11, 2008 See on congress.gov
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Mar 13, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 11, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 11, 2008
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 11, 2008
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007, to provide for Medicare coverage of comprehensive cancer patient treatment education services.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand, intensify, and coordinate programs for the conduct and support of research with respect to: (1) improving the treatment and management of symptoms and side effects associated with cancer and cancer treatment; and (2) evaluating the role of nursing interventions in the amelioration of such symptoms and side effects.

Requires the NIH Director to make nursing intervention research grants for studying cancer symptom management care and services delivered by registered nurses.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an arrangement under which the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences shall evaluate and report to the Secretary and Congress on the current state of symptom management, patient treatment education, and supportive care given to people with cancer.

What's happening now March 13, 2008

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 2 Republican 1
D
Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Sep 11, 2008
 R
Smith, Christopher H.
New Jersey · Sep 9, 2008
 D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · May 22, 2008
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5585: Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2008. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-5585/
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"H.R. 5585: Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2008." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-5585/.
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