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Director's Update  :  October 12, 2004

Adapting the Translational and Clinical Infrastructure to Meet Tomorrow's Challenges

In an analysis of cancer trends over decades, 5-year survival of patients with cancer has risen from approximately 20 percent in 1935 to 50 percent in 1971 to 64 percent by 2003. Although increased screening during this interval has influenced these survival trends, a very reliable endpoint, the number of cancer deaths per 100,000 Americans, has also been falling since about 1990. Read More >

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Director's Seminar Series

Progress with a Purpose - A series designed to bring the nation's leaders to NIH to discuss the extraordinary advances in their fields as we work toward eliminating the suffering and death due to cancer by 2015.

02/02/04   Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D.
03/19/04   Carl B. Feldbaum
09/16/04   Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H.

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NCI Cancer Bulletin     NCI Cancer Bulletin

The NCI Cancer Bulletin provides useful and authoritative news about cancer research, including important NCI programs and initiatives. With special reports and regular features, the NCI Cancer Bulletin is a valuable resource for the cancer community.

The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Initiative - Designing and Deploying a Novel, Community-Based Cancer Research Platform


caBIG is a new initiative coordinated by NCI in partnership with other members of the cancer research community. caBIG seeks to create a network that links organizations, institutions, and individuals to enable the sharing of cancer research infrastructure, data, and tools. It is an open-access, open-source activity that promises to expedite progress in cancer research.

NIHSeniorHealth
This Web site makes aging-related health information easily accessible for people seeking reliable, easy-to-understand online health information. It was developed by the National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine, with information from NCI and other components of NIH. Topics include breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers.

The Nation's Investment in Cancer Research for Fiscal Year 2005
Each year, as mandated by the National Cancer Act of 1971, NCI prepares a plan for building on research successes, supporting the cancer research workforce with the technologies and resources it needs, and ensuring that research discoveries are applied to improve human health. This annual plan and budget proposal is provided directly to the President of the United States for formulating the budget request to Congress.

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The National Advanced Technologies Initiative for Cancer: Harnessing the Full Potential of Advanced Technologies to Eliminate Suffering and Death Due to Cancer
Our nation's past successes in creating technologies to enhance scientific discovery - from the space program to the Human Genome Project - have produced dramatic scientific breakthroughs and advances. Now we have an opportunity to achieve an equally unimagined goal: to eliminate suffering and death due to cancer.

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About the Director

Andrew C. von Eschenbach Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., is the 12th Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) since its creation in 1937. A nationally recognized urologic surgeon, Dr. von Eschenbach's distinguished career as a key leader in the fight against cancer spans nearly three decades. More...

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