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(b)  No person shall sell, offer to sell, or give away, except on
the prescription of a physician or dentist, any drug, medicine, com-
pound, nostrum, or device represented by the manufacturer or seller
thereof to have curative powers in the treatment of the disease of
cancer.

(c)  "Cancer" as used in this section means all malignant neo-
plasms regardless of the tissue of origin and includes but is not
limited to malignant lymphoma and leukemia.

134. Confidential Records.

(a)  All records and other information procured by the Faculty,
component societies, in-hospital staff committees and national medi-
cal societies or groups organized for research which contain the
identity of any person are confidential records.

(1)  Access to and use of such confidential records shall be regu-
lated by Section 101 of Article 35 and Section 10 of Article 75C
of this Code.

(2)  Nothing in this section restricts publication of statistics and
data which do not disclose the identity of any person.

(b)  All proceedings and transactions before the Faculty and
records thereof pertaining to the investigation and report by the
Faculty pursuant to Section ISO of this article shall be confidential
to the extent provided for by subsection (a) hereof.

135. CONSENT OF MINOR TO TREATMENT.

(a)   The consent to the provision of medical or surgical care or
services by a hospital, public clinic, or the performance of medical
or surgical care or services by a physician, licensed to practice
medicine, when executed by a minor who is or professes to be mar-
ried, or by a female minor who is or professes to be pregnant, or by
a minor who is or professes to be afflicted with a venereal disease,
shall be valid and binding as if the minor had achieved his or her
majority, as the case may be; that is, a minor who is or professes
to be married, or a female minor who is, or professes to be pregnant,
or a minor who is or professes to be afflicted with a venereal dis-
ease, shall be deemed to have and shall have the same legal capacity
to act, and the same legal obligations with regard to the giving of
such consent to a hospital or clinical care or services or medical or
surgical care or services to be provided by a physician licensed to
practice medicine, as a person of full legal age and capacity, the
infancy of the said minor and any contrary provisions of law not-
withstanding; and the consent shall not be subject to later dis-
affirmance by reason of minority; and the consent of no other person
or persons (including, but not limited to a spouse, parent, custodian,
or guardian) shall be necessary in order to authorize the hospital
or clinical care or services or medical or surgical care or services
to be provided by a physician licensed to practice medicine to the
minor or minor's child.

(b)   Upon the advice and direction of a treating physician or if
more than one, any one of them, member of the medical staff of a
hospital, public clinic, or physician licensed to practice medicine may,
but shall not be obligated to, inform the spouse, parent, custodian,