2421 - Cancer institute; functions; powers and duties.

§  2421. Cancer institute; functions; powers and duties.  1. The state  institute  for  the  study  of   malignant   diseases,   shall   conduct  investigations  of  the cause, mortality, treatment, prevention and cure  of cancer and allied diseases.    2. Persons afflicted with cancer or allied diseases, may  be  received  free  of  charge  in the said state institute for study, experimental or  other treatment, under regulations established by the commissioner.    3. The direction of related research work in whole or in  part  toward  malignant diseases in connection with conditions other than cancer shall  not  be a violation of the conditions of the grants made pursuant to the  provisions of chapter one hundred twenty-eight of the laws  of  nineteen  hundred eleven.