The Nation's Investment in Cancer Research
A Budget Proposal for Fiscal Years 1997/98
Prepared by the Director
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
In carrying out the National Cancer Program, the Director of the National Cancer Institute shall...prepare and submit, directly to the President for review and transmittal to Congress, an annual budget estimate for the National Cancer Program after reasonable opportunity for comment (but without change) by the Secretary, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and the National Cancer Advisory Board...
The legislative mandate for the Bypass Budget
is found in the National Cancer Act of 1971
[Public Law 92-218, Sec. 407(b)(9)(A)]