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American Institute for Cancer Research

The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) is the nation's third largest cancer charity and a pioneer in the areas of diet and nutrition as they relate to the prevention and treatment of cancer. This informative site offers news, research updates, recipes, and free publications as well as tips for good health. In addition, AICR's services program provides a reliable source of accurate and...

https://www.aicr.org
BC Cancer Research Centre

Located in Vancouver, the BC Cancer Research Centre (BCCRC) provides a place for scientists and researchers to "perform basic, epidemiologic, and clinical research on cancer prevention, early diagnosis of cancer, the molecular and genetic characteristics of the cancer process, and basic research related to new treatments of cancer." The BCCRC website connects visitors to information about various...

https://www.bccrc.ca/
CDC: Cancer Prevention and Control

Cancer continues to be of paramount concern to citizens across the United States, and the Center for Disease Control has developed this well laid out site to inform the general public about the numerous forms of the disease, along with providing data about state and national statistics regarding the most prevalent forms of the disease. Some of the more compelling material released on the site...

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/index.htm
Clinical Trials: Cancer

The US National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute provides this site, a gateway to clinical trials information. Central to the site is access to PDQ (Physician Data Query), a searchable database of over 1,500 cancer trials. PDQ can be searched by up to ten diagnostic and geographic variables, as well as by trials added to the database in the last month. Retrieved information...

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trial...
Fox Chase Cancer Center: Research

In 1974, the Fox Chase Cancer Center was designated as one the country's first comprehensive cancer centers by the National Cancer Institute. The mission of Fox Chase "is to reduce the burden of human cancer through the highest-quality programs in research and patient care, including cancer prevention, treatment, early detection and education." Current Fox Chase faculty research programs focus on...

https://www.foxchase.org/research-training
Promising New Developments in Cancer Research

The 2001 Joint Meetings of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) were held this week in Miami, Florida and included numerous presentations on promising cancer therapies. Two of the most prominent developments announced were a possible vaccine against melanoma and a "smart"...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2001/1102
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute: The Cancer Genome Project

Supported by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Cancer Genome Project (CGP) "is using the human genome sequence and high throughput mutation detection techniques to identify somatically acquired sequence variants/mutations and hence identify genes critical in the development of human cancers. This initiative will ultimately provide the paradigm for the detection of germline mutations in...

https://www.sanger.ac.uk/group/cancer-genome-project/