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Introduction and Short Title

[PUBLIC LAW 92-218]
[92ND CONGRESS, S. 1828]
[DECEMBER 23, 1971]
An Act

To amend the Public Health Service Act so as to strengthen the National Cancer Institute of Health in order more effectively to carry out the national effort against cancer.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SHORT TITLE

SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as "The National Cancer Act of 1971".

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