KRS 311.935: Preparation of standardized written summary of information on

alternatives in treatment of breast cancer -- Distribution to patients.

(1) No later than one (1) year after July 13, 1984, the McDowell Cancer Network, Inc.,

and the James Graham Brown Cancer Center shall jointly develop and submit to the

Cabinet for Health and Family Services and may periodically update a standardized

written summary, in layman's language and in language understood by the patient,

of the advantages, disadvantages, risks, and descriptions of all medically efficacious

and viable alternatives for the treatment of breast cancer.

(2) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services, within ninety (90) days of receipt of

the summary, shall print and make available to all licensed physi cians in the

Commonwealth sufficient copies of the standardized written summary for

distribution by such physicians to their patients.

(3) Upon receipt of the summary, any physician licensed under the laws of the

Commonwealth who treats a patient for any f orm of breast cancer shall provide the

patient with a standardized written summary, as provided under this section,

informing the patient of medically efficacious and viable alternative methods of

treatment for breast cancer which may include surgical, rad iological, or

chemotherapeutic treatment or combinations thereof.