New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 3 - Executive Orders (Hugh L. Carey) › Section 3.32 - Executive Order No. 32: [Establishing Breast Cancer Advisory Committee.]

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Breast cancer is a major public health problem that
					 warrants the most serious efforts by the State to reduce its ravages. It is the
					 leading cause of death among women age 40 to 44, reaching almost epidemic
					 proportions in recent years. The mortality of breast cancer can be dramatically
					 reduced if the disease is detected at its initial stage. Therefore, an
					 aggressive and comprehensive program of breast cancer detection is critically
					 important.
The means for treating this serious problem may be at hand
					 through improved techniques of early detection and new methods of treatment.
					 Programs for detection, however, are rarely properly organized or coordinated
					 with the essential treatment and follow-up services.
Therefore, I, Hugh L. Carey, Governor of the State of New
					 York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of
					 the State of New York, in order to insure that the State assume a leadership
					 role in coordinating the diverse public and private efforts in the fight
					 against breast cancer, and in order to provide the best possible information
					 concerning proper modes of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care
					 for breast cancer to the people of New York, do hereby direct the Commissioner
					 of Health to develop a statewide comprehensive plan for an early detection
					 system for breast cancer.
To advise and assist the Commissioner of Health in the
					 acquisition of relevant data and in the preparation and implementation of the
					 statewide comprehensive plan, I hereby establish a Breast Cancer Advisory
					 Committee, to consist of 16 members appointed by the Governor and to be
					 comprised of recognized experts in the fields of medicine, health economics,
					 education and public health for breast cancer control programs, as well as
					 private individuals widely experienced in the fight against breast
					 cancer.
The Committee shall solicit and interpret data from
					 recognized breast cancer screening centers and other breast cancer authorities
					 and shall advise the Commissioner of Health on the development, implementation
					 and policy direction of the statewide comprehensive plan.
The Commissioner of Health shall be responsible for
					 collecting and analyzing data, formulating standards and guidelines, conducting
					 such studies as are advisable and organizing and coordinating the diverse
					 private and public resource expenditures for the purpose of early detection.
					 The plan he derives must identify a statewide early detection system which will
					 be interrelated with the health system's treatment resources for appropriate
					 follow-up and case management as well as for general educational
					 purposes.
The Commissioner of Health is hereby directed to submit to
					 the Governor a statewide comprehensive plan for the early detection and
					 treatment of breast cancer. He is directed to make periodic progress reports on
					 the development of this plan at three-month intervals from the date of this
					 Order and to submit progress reports on implementation of the plan at six-month
					 intervals from the date of its submission.
Signed: Hugh L. Carey
Dated: March 10, 1976