National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., today announced the funding of four new Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers to study the prenatal-to-adult environmental exposures that may predispose a woman to breast cancer. The centers are funded jointly by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Cancer Institute, […]

With cancer death rates highest among people 65 years and older, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA), both parts of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), are launching a new initiative to accelerate research into the relationship between aging and cancer. The 5-year approximately $25 million grant program will […]