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Friday, June 05, 2009

The Director's Notes for June 4, 2009 - National Cancer Institute



The Director's Notes for June 4, 2009 - National Cancer Institute: "Last Monday, I met with a new coalition of advocacy organizations concerned with a group of cancers - brain, esophagus, liver, lung, myeloma, pancreas, ovarian, and stomach - each with a survival rate of less than 50 percent. Representing 20 different organizations, the group presented data showing that 276,040 deaths (49.1 percent of the cancer deaths predicted in 2009) will come from those eight forms of cancer. The advocates are concerned that those same cancers only account for approximately 18 percent of the NCI funded research portfolio, and they seek a greater emphasis on these cancers........."

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