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  • Executive summary


  • Highlights of progress


  • 2003 Budget Request
  • Funding needed to conduct our research program
  • Historical data


  • Infrastructure Needed for Cancer Research — NCI’s Challenge
  • Enhancing investigator-initiated research
  • Centers, networks, and consortia
  • National clinical trials program
  • Studying emerging trends
  • Improving the quality of care
  • Reducing health disparities
  • Informatics and information flow
  • Research training and career development


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  • Scientific Priorities for Cancer Research — Extraordinary Opportunities
  • Genes and the environment
  • Cancer imaging
  • Molecular targets
  • Tobacco and tobacco-related cancer research
  • Defining the signatures of cancer cells
  • Cancer communications


  • About NCI
  • Who we are
  • Our role in cancer research
  • Spotlights on research
  • Thirty years later...


  • Planning National Agendas in Disease-Specific Research
  • Response and communication
  • Highlights of Progress Review Group recommendations
  • Assessing the impact...


  • Acknowledgements


    "Our hope for the elimination of cancer is our nation’s agenda, and it is the mission of the National Cancer Institute to lead and assure that agenda is fulfilled."

    From the remarks of Andrew C. Von Eschenbach, M.D. at his swearing-in as Director of the National Cancer Institute. Read the full text.


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