On Sept. 27, 2006, the National Cancer Institute announced funding for a major component of its $104 million,…
On Sept. 15, 2006, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) celebrated it’s 60th anniversary. More than 600 people…
On Sept. 6, 2006, a report from the nation’s leading cancer organizations found that Americans’ risk of dying…
On Sept. 1, 2006, National Cancer Institute (NCI) researchers developed a new model for estimating the 5-year risk…
On Sept. 1, 2006, President Bush appointed John E. Niederhuber, M.D., to be the 13th director of the…
On Jul. 18, 2006, the Fred Hutchinson Business Alliance announced that the E. Donnall Thomas Medal of Achievement…
On Jul. 17, 2006, Eli Lilly and Company’s Gemzar was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for…
On Jun. 29, 2006, researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health,…
On Jun. 7, 2006, gene profiling, a molecular technique that examines many genes simultaneously, can accurately distinguish between…
On May 23, 2006, the Trial Assigning Individualized Options for Treatment (Rx), or TAILORx, was launched to examine…
On May 11, 2006, researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center began to n to move…
On Apr. 17, 2006, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced initial results of the Study of Tamoxifen and…
On Mar. 22, 2006, the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington School of Medicine in St….
On Jan. 31, 2006, Dan Duncan, founder of Enterprise Partners, an energy company in Houston, announced a donation…
On Jan. 13, 2006, the University of Washington (UW) Medical Center became the first hospital in the country…
In 2006, The Indiana University Cancer Center was renamed the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center….
In 2006, Calistoga Pharmaceuticals was founded as a Seattle-based spin-off from ICOS Corp. that was dedicated to developing…
In 2006, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the TAILORx trial to determine whether gene expression patterns in…
In 2006, the Winship Cancer Institute received a $7.9 million P01 5-year grant from the Cancer Institute (NCI)…
On Dec. 13, 2005, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute launched a…
On Dec. 7, 2005, results from several studies presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium validated that…
On Dec. 1, 2005, the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute became Michigan’s first and only independent hospital exclusively…
On Nov. 11, 2005, the U.S. Congress authorized the 2-year extension of Postage Stamp for Breast Cancer Research…
On Nov. 7, 2005, the National Cancer Institute launched a cancer biorepository pilot project designed to standardize biospecimen…
On Oct. 5, 2005, the National Cancer Institute’s Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer,…
On Sept. 28, 2005, the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)…
On Sept. 22, 2005, the Siteman Cancer Center opened a new center at Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital. Ovarian…
On Sept. 16, 2005, preliminary results from a large, clinical trial of digital vs. film mammography showed no…
On Jun. 29, 2005, the Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-18) amended…
On May 6, 2005, the National Cancer Institute announced the Community Networks Program (CNP), a 5-year initiative to…