Breast Cancer Stamp Funds New NCI Program

Breast cancer stamp funds new NCI program.

F or the last 9 years, the U.S. Postal Service's breast cancer stamp has come to the rescue of breast cancer researchers in need of funding. Now a new program introduced by the National Cancer Institute narrows the focus of the research funded by the stamp but asks bigger questions. The proceeds from the stamp are now funneled into the breast cancer premalig-nancy program, which funds research ...

Food Stamp Program

The diet, nutrition, and cancer program of the NCI National Cancer Program.

In November 1974, in response to a mandate in the revised National Cancer Act of 1974, a plan was introduced for the formation of a Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer Program. Dr. Frank J. Rauscher, Director of the National Cancer Institute, selected a group of scientists who defined the goals of the program and recommended the appointment of a program director and of an advisory committee. These reco...

NIEHS, NCI, and NIA Colaborate on Breast Cancer

We analysed 29 consecutive cases of primary gastric lymphoma (20 men and 9 women) treated in our unit between January 1977 and May 1983. Median age was 55 years. Abdominal pain and weight loss were the main presenting symptoms while there was no palpable disease in the majority of cases. Upper gastrointestinal radiology was abnormal, but not diagnostic, in all cases. Endoscopy with multiple bio...

Breast cancer imaging: a new role of Tc-99m sestamibi prone scintimammography for diagnosisof breast cancer

Mammography remians the procedure of choice in screening asymptomatic women for breast cancer. However, in patients with symptoms, other types of imaging play an important role in the detection of malignancies. The high cost and lack of availability of PET and MRI largely precludes the use in this patient population. TI-201 is nbt the imaging agent of choice because of its wash-out and redistri...