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This bill establishes the "Cancer Patients' Bill of Rights" by adding a new section to Missouri law, which will be made easily accessible online by the department of health and senior services. The bill outlines several rights for cancer patients, including the right to fully understand their diagnoses and treatment options in understandable and culturally appropriate languages, the right to transparent and timely access to contracting oncology specialists (doctors who treat cancer), diagnostic testing, and accurate interpretations of those tests, the right to contracting cancer subspecialists (doctors with expertise in specific types of cancer) for complex treatment decisions, the right to medical treatments for pain management and other supportive health services, the right to contracting National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers and leading academic medical centers for complex cancer management, and the right to relevant clinical trials, medical research, and cutting-edge innovation like evidence-supported precision medicine (treatments tailored to an individual's genetic makeup).

Health and Social Services

https://www.senate.mo.gov/26info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=74583