The National Cancer Institute and the NIH Office of Medical Applications
of Research sponsored the conference. Cosponsors included the National Institute
of Nursing Research and the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health.
The full NIH Consensus Statement on Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer is
available by calling 1-888-NIH-CONSENSUS (1-888-644-2667) or by visiting the
NIH Consensus Development Program Web site at http://consensus.nih.gov. (The
panel's draft statement will be posted to the Web by the evening of November
3, 2000.)
The consensus statement is the report of an independent panel and is not
a policy statement of the NIH or the Federal Government. The NIH Consensus
Development Program was established in 1977 to resolve in an unbiased manner
controversial topics in medicine. To date, NIH has conducted 113 such conferences
addressing a wide range of controversial medical issues important to health
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