Each year, countless people at NCI; on our advisory boards; and in research, other professional, and advocacy organizations around the country provide their insights, perspectives, and expertise for the development of this document. Members of the Office of Science Planning and Assessment provide leadership and guidance for plan development from conceptualization to production. They work alongside the core group of NCI leaders who serve as Champions for the various priority areas and with staff of the Office of Budget and Financial Management and the Office of Communications. Numerous other people at NCI contribute information, review drafts, and identify new areas of emphasis.

The following people made major contributions to this document:

NCI Office of Science Planning and Assessment:
Lead Staff: Cherie Nichols, Kathie Reed, Kathy Sorrow, and Marianne Kost.
Priority Area Contacts: Anne Tatem, Jane Lockmuller, Lisa Stevens, Samir Sauma, and Margaret Ames

NCI Priority Area Champions: Jeff Abrams, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, Carl Barrett, Linda M. Brown, Martin Brown, Ken Buetow, Neil Caporaso, Nelvis Castro, Steve Chanock, Michaele Christian, Norm Coleman, Jim Crowell, Bob Croyle, Ellen Feigal, Michele Forman, Harold Freeman, Paulette Gray, Lee Helman, Bob Hoover, Lenora Johnson, Gary Kelloff, Jon Kerner, Brian Kimes, Scott Leischow, Joe Lipscomb, Ed Maibach, Mary McCabe, John Milner, Lori Minasian, Julia Rowland, Ed Sausville, Arthur Schatzkin, Jeff Shilling, Dinah Singer, John Sogn, Bob Strausberg, Dan Sullivan, Ed Trapido, and Vish Viswanath

NCI Office of Budget and Financial Management: Jim Dickens and Ngan Nguyen

NCI Office of Communications: Jo-Ann Kriebel, Tamara Maze-Gallman, Donna Bonner, Paul LaMasters, and Diane Reid

NCI Office of the Director: John Hartinger and Jim Mathews

Other NCI offices: Jane Daye, Matt Fritts, Elisabeth Handley, Jill Johnson, and Stacey Vandor

Michigan State University: Barbara Given, Charles Given, and Paula Sherwood

Other contributors include:

NCI Staff: Alan Rabson, Noreen Aziz, Ann Barker, Joseph Fraumeni, Peter Greenwald, Norma Davis, Kevin Callahan, Anna Levy, Jim Corrigan, Marilyn Duncan, Buddy Clark, Lauren Christopher, Christine Moretto, Julie Schneider, Kevin Wright, Heather Burns, Michelle Bennett, Kelly Blake, Barbara Croft, Gregory Downing, Andrea Denicoff, Kay Flemming, Dorothy Foellmer, Barbara Galen, Neil Goldman, Lakshmi Grama, Ernie Hawk, Steve Hazen, Marianne Henderson, Steven Hewitt, John Hoffman, Jim Jacobson, Diana Jeffery, Kathy Kelly, Geoffrey Kidd, Lance Liotta, Guoying Lui, Cheryl Marks, Anne Menkens, Suresh Mohla, Ed Monachino, Kathleen Schlom, Sudhir Srivastava, James Tatum, Sheila Taube, Gina Tesauro, Tracy Thompson, Robert Yarchoan, Sheila Zahm, and Katherine Zoon.

National Institute on Aging: Rosemary Yancik.

University of Pennsylvania: Gillies McKenna.

University of Michigan: Theodore Lawrence.

M. D. Anderson Cancer Center: Michele Follen

The following people and organizations provided input prior to the development of this document.

NCI Director's Consumer Liaison Group: Vernal Branch, Kathy Giusti, Ruth Lin, Barbara LeStage, Gena Love, Michael Katz, Karen Packer, Nyrvah Richard, Doug Ulman, and Marisa Weiss

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers: Dave Alberts, Ralph Freedman, Gary Giovino, and John Mendelsohn

Professional and Advocacy Organizations: American Association for Cancer Research, American Society for Clinical Oncology, American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, The Children's Cause, and Federation of Practice Based Research Networks.

Individual Reviewers: Edith Balbach, Steve Booth-Butterfield, Judith Brook, Gregory Connolly, Dave Haaga, Dorothy Hatsukami, Bruce Hillman, Wendy Hobbie, Judy Hopkins, Lawrence Hunter, Ferenc Jolesz, Herb Kressel, Nancy Krieger, Ed Lichtenstein, Pamela Ling, Ruth Malone, Timothy Rebbeck, Barbara Stillwater, and Tom Vogt.

A special thank you goes to the following people who provided writing, design, editing, proofing, and printing support for the production of this document: Suzanne Reuben of Progressive Health Systems; Lynne Komai, Don Wheeler, and Claudia Smith of the Watermark Design Office; Paula Zeller; Kathy Hollen; and Walt Burroughs.