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Introduction
The challenge before NCI is to build and continually enhance a research system that will allow the scientific community to apply new discoveries and emerging technologies.
Investigator-Initiated Research
Goal: To accelerate discoveries and their application by expanding and facilitating researcher access to resources and new technologies.
Centers, Networks, and Consortia
Goal:
To create and sustain research infrastructures for collaboration, technology support and development, and access to resources.
National Clinical Trials Program in Treatment and Prevention
Goal: To ensure that clinical trials address the most important questions in treatment and prevention and are broadly accessible.
Story of Discovery
2001 brought an entirely new way of treating one of the cancers of the blood — by going after the very molecules that lead cells astray. But the journey to 2001 was long and difficult and instructive. Here it is, step by step.
Studying Emerging Trends in Cancer
Goal: To expand cancer surveillance to improve monitoring of progress in cancer control and explain potential causes of cancer across all populations.
Quality of Cancer Care
Goal:Enhance the state of the science for defining, measuring, monitoring, and improving the quality of cancer care, and inform both public- and private- sector decision making on cancer care delivery, coverage, regulation, and standards setting.
Reducing Cancer-Related Health Disparities
Goal: To understand the causes of cancer health disparities and develop effective interventions to reduce or eliminate them.
Informatics and Information Flow
Goal: To create an informatics infrastructure that enhances information and resource exchange among researchers.
Cancer Research Training and Career Development
Goal: To prepare a stable, diverse cadre of scientists to work together and use technologies for building knowledge and translating discoveries into application.
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