HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 05211985 - 1.37 To: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Contra
FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator
Costa
DATE: May 13, 1985 " `"urly
SUBJECT: Legislation: AB 136 (Connelly)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Adopt a position of support for AB 136 (Connelly) which would
require the State Department of Health Services to conduct a
program of Epidemiological Assessments of the incidence of
cancer, which encompass all areas of the State for which cancer
incidence data are available. This bill would require the
State Department of Health Services to establish a. statewide
system for the collection of information determining the
incidence of cancer, and would require the Department to
establish a population-based tumor registry in specified
counties within one year of the effective date of the bill, and
to establish such a tumor registry, in all other counties within
2 years of the effective date of the bill, except in counties
with a population-based tumor registry existing on the
effective date of the bill. The bill would require that the
information reported be confidential, and be used for the
purpose of determining the sources of malignant Neoplasms and
evaluating measures designed to eliminate, alleviate, or
ameliorate their effect. The bill would appropriate $1 ,470 ,000
to the Department for the purpose of carrying out these
rrovisions.
BACKGROUND:
This bill will provide for the entire State of California to be
covered by a population-based Tumor Registry similar to the one
that already exists in the five-county Surveillance
Epidemiology and End Results program (S.E.R.R. ) region in the
Bay Area, which includes Contra Costa County, as well as in Los
Angeles and Orange counties. The existing Tumor Registries
have already demonstrated the value of maintaining careful
records of cancer cases. Extending the Registry to cover the
entire State of California would yield substantial benefits in"
Public Health surveillance in epidemiology, which will
translate itself into an improved health status for our State.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON May 21 , 198b APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
County Administrator OF SUPERVISOR ON THE DATE SHOWN.
Health Services Director
CC: HOYSL
Wendel Brunner, M.D. ATTESTED
Assemblyman Lloyd Connelly PHIL BATCHELOR. CLERIC OF THE BOARD OF
Assemblyman John Vasconcellos, Chairman SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Ways & Means
Assemblymen Baker, Campbell & Isenberg `—
Msa2/�-es by � �-'C�1C-�`� DEPUTY
Page 2
In addition to facilitating investigations of Occupational and
Environmentally-caused cancer, a Tumor Registry will aid in
confronting cancer as a chronic disease. An extensive Tumor
Registry will be invaluable in evaluating strategies for
preventing or effectively treating cancer of all kinds. The
Registry will allow us to measure outcomes of Public health
interventions for prevention, and clinical interventions for
treatment of a wide variety of cancers throughout the State.
As Contra Costa County is already included in the existing
S.E.E.R. Registry, there will be no direct impact in Contra
Costa of this bill. However, the information and knowledge of
cancer which can be gained from a statewide population-based
Registry can be applied to strategies for prevention and
treatment of cancer in our own population.