1. The Chief Medical Officer shall, pursuant to the regulations of the State Board of Health, establish and maintain a system for the reporting of information on cancer and other neoplasms.
2. The system must include a record of the cases of cancer and other neoplasms, which are specified by the State Board of Health as subject to reporting, which occur in this state along with such information concerning the cases as may be appropriate to form the basis for:
(a) The conducting of comprehensive epidemiologic surveys of cancer, cancer-related diseases and other neoplasms in this state; and
(b) The evaluation of the appropriateness of measures for the prevention and control of cancer and other neoplasms.
3. Hospitals, medical laboratories and other facilities that provide screening, diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients with respect to cancer and other neoplasms shall report information on cases of cancer and other neoplasms, which are specified by the State Board of Health as subject to reporting, to the system.
4. Any provider of health care who diagnoses or provides treatment for cancer or other neoplasms, except for cases directly referred or previously admitted to a hospital, medical laboratory or other facility described in subsection 3, shall report information on cases of cancer and other neoplasms, which are specified by the State Board of Health as subject to reporting, to the system.
5. As used in this section:
(a) “Medical laboratory” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 652.060.
(b) “Provider of health care” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 1677; A 1997, 1309; 2015, 385)
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