1. Conducting Clinical Trials
Cancer clinical trials educational program consisting of a varietyof materials from basic information for patients, to train-the-trainercomponents for variety of organizations and professionals, includingSpanish language materials, and an online...
2. Congressional Testimony
A rundown of congressional hearings of interest and recent testimonies on cancer research.
3. Lectures and presentations from NIH
Videocast of daily and archived seminars
4. Understanding Cancer Series
The Understanding Cancer Series includes graphic-rich tutorials foreducational use by life science teachers, medical professionals, and the interested public. Each tutorial is available in English or Spanishand in PDF and PowerPoint formats that...
1. Cancer Risk Prediction Resources
Accurately assessing cancer risk in average- and high-risk individuals is an important component to controlling the suffering and death due to cancer. Cancer risk prediction models provide an important approach to assessing risk and susceptibility...
2. Cancer Trends Progress Report
The Cancer Trends Progress Report was designed to help the nation review past efforts and plan future ones. The public can use the report to better understand the nature and results of strategies to fight cancer. Researchers, clinicians, and...
3. CCR Research Directory
The CCR Research Directory provides an overview of each Branch, Laboratory, and Program as well as links to individual Web sites for Principal Investigators, Staff Clinicians, and Staff Scientists. The Directory is organized into 3 indexes: ...
4. Community Networks Program
This resource provides an overview of the Community Networks Program, including the goals and phases of research; descriptions of the 25 projects; and descriptions and contact information about the funded institutions and principal...
5. Glycemic Index Values Database
NCI has developed a listing of Glycemic Index (GI) values for individual foods. Food codes from the USDA Continuing Survey of Food Intakes of Individuals (CSFII) are used as a reference. The file provides GI values for those foods consumed by...
6. International Cancer Screening Network (ICSN)
The International Cancer Screening Network (ICSN) is a voluntary consortium of countries that have active population-based cancer screening programs. These programs can be national or subnational in scope, and established or pilot-based....
7. NewsCenter
Information for journalists:
Press releases
Background information
Downloadable audiovisual/multimedia resources
Interview transcripts
8. Patient Navigator Research Program
This resource provides an overview of the Patient Navigator Research Program, including the goals and phases of research; a description of patient navigators, descriptions of the 9 projects; and descriptions and contact information about the...
9. PDQ Database
PDQ is the National Cancer Institute's comprehensive cancer information database. It contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care; a registry of approximately 3,500 open and...
10. Smokefree Meeting Policy
NCI recognizes that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is an important preventable cause of death from cancer and other illnesses and that many Americans, both adults and children, remain at significant risk from ETS exposure. To reduce cancer and...
11. State Cancer Legislative Database (SCLD)
Information available
For evaluating the effect of state legislation on public health and on the application of cancer control science
For monitoring legislative trends that may reflect changing public attitudes...
12. The National Cancer Institute's Web Site - Cancer.gov
The NCI's gateway Web site, Cancer.gov, provides access to:
Cancer information, including the PDQ database of peer-reviewed information summaries and NCI cancer information publications
Clinical trials information...
1. Cancer Control P.L.A.N.E.T.
Cancer control planners, program staff, and researchers have the same goals: to reduce cancer risk, the number of new cancer cases, and the number of deaths from cancer, as well as enhance the quality...
2. Cancer Information Service (CIS)
The Cancer Information Service (CIS) provides information aboutcancer to patients and their families, physicians and other healthprofessionals, and the public. The CIS's three-pronged approachutilizes information specialists that...
3. Cancer Topic Searches
Cancer Topic Searches are "packaged" literature searches of the National Library of Medicine's PUBMED database. Searches prepared by medical librarians and subject matter experts facilitate ready access to citations in the PUBMED...
4. Conducting Clinical Trials
Cancer clinical trials educational program consisting of a varietyof materials from basic information for patients, to train-the-trainercomponents for variety of organizations and professionals, includingSpanish language materials, and an online...
5. Diet History Questionnaire
The Diet History Questionnaire (DHQ) is a freely available food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) developed by staff at the Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch (RFMMB). It can be used by researchers, clinicians, or teachers without ...
6. Diet*Calc
The Diet*Calc software is used to analyze the Diet History Questionnaire data files. It interprets the DHQ data to provide nutrient and food group intake estimates.
7. Implementation Science
The Implementation Science Web site provides researchers and public health practitioners a single location for knowledge transfer in cancer control, including access to current research, funding opportunities, information and resources, and...
8. NCI Cancer Bulletin
The NCI Cancer Bulletin, a weekly electronic newsletter produced bythe National Cancer Institute (NCI) Office of Communications, is animportant part of NCI's response to its mandate under the NationalCancer Act of 1971 to educate the public and...
9. NCI Drug Dictionary
The NCI Drug Dictionary provides technical definitions, synonyms, brand names, and other names for drugs/agents used in the treatment of cancer and cancer-related conditions. Information in the NCI Drug Dictionary is from the NCI Thesaurus,...
10. Theories Project: Improving Theories of Health Behavior
The goal of the Theories Project is to identify and carry out activities that will help develop improved theories of health behavior. Its focus is on actions that individuals can take to prevent cancer and speed its early detection. The literature...
11. Visuals Online
Visuals Online contains high resolution images from the collections of the Publication Support Branch and Mass Media Office, components of the Office of Communications, National Cancer Institute. Contents include photographs, medical illustrations...