Scientists report that they were able to distinguish between the patterns of gene expression for two common types of non-small cell lung cancer, squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma, in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*. The study was a collaboration between government, academic, and industry scientists.

The more teenagers see actors smoking in films, the more likely they are to try cigarettes, reports the December 15 issue of the British Medical Journal. A study of nearly 5,000 rural middle school students (ages 9 to 15) in Vermont and New Hampshire shows a strong association between the number of times adolescents view […]

President Bush announced today that Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., will head the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md.

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) today released Cancer Progress Report 2001 the first in a new series of reports designed to make scientific information on cancer more accessible and understandable. The new report succinctly describes and illustrates the nations progress in reducing the cancer burden across the full cancer continuum, from prevention through the impact […]