History of CIP
Staff Directory
Organizational Structure
The mission of the Cancer Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, is to promote and support:
- Cancer-related basic, translational and clinical research in imaging sciences and technology, and
- Integration and application of these imaging discoveries and developments to the understanding of cancer biology and to the clinical management of cancer and cancer risk.
2-05-2004
Cancer Imaging: visualize the problem and direct the solution.
- Infrastructure and programs to support the discovery and development of molecular imaging for cancer care and understanding of cancer biology.
- A set of imaging methods validated as cancer biomarkers, some of which are surrogate endpoints.
- Infrastructure and programs to support the discovery, development and delivery of image-dependent interventions for cancer and pre-cancer.
- An implemented infrastructure based on standardized models for the design and conduct of clinical trials of, or using, imaging and image-guided interventions.
- Accelerated development and delivery of integrated imaging systems and methods for cancer care and research.
- Critical role in NIH and NCI activities in emerging technologies, such as nanotechnology, proteomics, and high-throughput screening technologies.
- An implemented informatics infrastructure to optimize the value of cancer imaging data.
- A strategy of imaging science and methods to detect, treat and monitor response to therapy in pre-cancer.
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