California Assembly Bill 2325 (AB 2325) is signed into law. Pathologists diagnosing cancer are required to report every cancer diagnosis to CCR electronically before January 1, 2019. Learn more [...]

The Cancer Registries Amendment Act is expanded to authorize the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide funds to states and regions to improve, plan, and expand registries, [...]

The US Congress passes the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or “HIPAA”—a law requiring uniform federal privacy protections for individually identifiable health [...]

Congress passes the Cancer Registries Amendment Act,  establishing the National Program of Cancer Registries  (NPCR).

California Cancer Registry (CCR) is established in accordance with California Health and Safety (HSC) code, sections 103875 – 103885, requiring that cancer information be reported by law. [...]

The National Cancer Institute establishes the first national registry, known as Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER).

President Nixon signs the National Cancer Act into law, invoking a “war on cancer” and budgeting governmental funds to support the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for the first time.