Your Tax Dollars at Work
Q&A with Joseph Unger on publicly funded cancer research.
By Sue Rochman
Eighty years ago, Congress passed the National Cancer Act of 1937, which included federal funding to establish a National Cancer Institute (NCI) that would carry out and coordinate clinical trials and fund cancer research. About two decades later, the NCI established the Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program, now known as the National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN), to create an infrastructure for implementing large trials. The NCI’s 2017 budget is close to $5.4 billion; about $315 million goes to NCTN studies.
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