Health and Safety Code section 109365

It is unlawful for any person, with the intent to defraud, to falsely represent and provide for compensation a device, substance, method or treatment as effective to diagnose, arrest, prevent, or cure cancer. Nothing in this section shall abridge the existent rights of the press.

Source: Section 109365, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=109365. (updated Jan. 1, 1996; accessed Jun. 18, 2026).

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Location: https://california.public.law/codes/health_and_safety_code_section_109365

Original Source: Section 109365, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=109365. (last accessed May 12, 2025).