Smokers and tobacco users trying to quit will soon have a potent ally-fellow smokers. The “Quit Now” Challenge, a new initiative featuring the inspirational stories of people who want to quit smoking, was announced today by The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), both agencies of the Department […]

The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced funding for a major component of its $104 million, five-year Clinical Proteomic Technologies Initiative for Cancer (CPTI). Awards totaling $35.5 million over five years will establish a collaborative network of five Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer (CPTAC) teams. Each of […]

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced the first three cancers that will be studied in the pilot phase of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. The cancers to be studied in the TCGA Pilot Project are lung, […]

Systematic, genome-wide scans of two types of cancer — breast cancer and colorectal cancer — have revealed important new findings about the genetic underpinnings of these diseases, a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore, Md., an NCI-designated Cancer Center, reports in the September 7 online issue of Science.* The […]

A new report from the nation’s leading cancer organizations finds that Americans’ risk of dying from cancer continues to drop, maintaining a trend that began in the early 1990s. However, the rate of new cancers remains stable. The “Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2003, Featuring Cancer among U.S. Hispanic/Latino Populations” […]