Mary Jo Lawyer Spano Mesothelioma Patient Registry Act of 2017

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to develop a patient registry to collect data on mesothelioma.

The agency must use the registry to:

• enhance and expand infrastructure and activities for tracking the epidemiology of mesothelioma patients;
• collect, consolidate, and report on health information on mesothelioma patients;
• describe the incidence and prevalence of mesothelioma in the United States;
• facilitate research on mesothelioma;
• examine factors that may be associated with mesothelioma;
• outline key demographic factors associated with mesothelioma; and
• make information available to the public to facilitate and enhance research on, and the prevention and treatment of, mesothelioma.