Skip Navigation

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2003 95(19):1427-1428; doi:10.1093/jnci/95.19.1427
© 2003 by Oxford University Press
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (1)
Right arrow Request Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Benowitz, S.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Benowitz, S.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© 2003 Oxford University Press

NEWS

Despite Challenges, Cancer Prevention and Control Programs on the Rise

Steven Benowitz

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

David Alberts, M.D., likes to tell the story about how he was "asked" 15 years ago to take over a nascent cancer prevention and control program at the University of Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson, with little administrative vision and few resources, save a tiny piece of the cancer center core grant pie. Today, Arizona’s prevention program is one of the most well respected in the country.


Figure Removed (Available Only in the Full Text)
View larger version (108K):
[in this window]
[in a new window]
  		Dr. David Alberts

 
Although not all programs have such humble beginnings, cancer prevention and control research programs have been, in many cases, considered second-class citizens. Prevention research has "historically played a second-tier role in cancer centers," said Robert Young, M.D., president of Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.

Why? Until recently, said Young, federal funding for research had been lacking. But in the last decade, a change in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Building a Program

New Funding Mechanisms

Shared Resources


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?