(Eagle News) — The Senate on Thursday, Dec. 13, ratified the bicameral conference report on the cancer control bill that aims to establish a national framework to combat the disease.
Under the measure–which reconciles Senate Bill No. 1850 or the National Integrated Cancer Control Act with House Bill No. 8636— a National Integrated Cancer Advisory Council shall be created to develop the National Cancer Control roadmap.
The roadmap, a statement issued by Senator JV Ejercito said, will “institutionalize integrated cancer control strategies, policies, programs and service in the national and local health care system.”
Ejercito is a co-author of the Senate version of the bill.
According to the statement, the council, under the measure, will also be tasked to “develop, update, and promote evidence-based treatment standards and guidelines and innovative and cost-effective cancer care models for adult and children cancer.”
“If enacted into law, the National Integrated Cancer Control Act will give hope to every Filipino who suffered long enough battling cancer on their own that they will have an equitable and affordable cancer treatment and care especially for the underprivileged and marginalized Filipinos,” Ejercito said.
