U.S. National Institutes of Health
Last Updated: 04/06/07

DCTD Major Ongoing Initiatives and Accomplishments

As contributors to the goal of eliminating suffering and death due to cancer, DCTD staff members and their colleagues are reexamining discovery, development, and delivery of cancer therapeutics. What follows is a brief summation of some of the division's priorities as it hastens to find and develop more interventions tailored to the specific characteristics of a patient's cancer.