1998 Press Releases National Cancer Institute Launches Imaging Initiative 12/8/98 The Director's Challenge: Toward A Molecular Classification of Tumors 12/8/98 Phase II Cancer Vaccine Trial for B-Cell Lymphoma 12/8/98 NCI Announces Creation of Early Detection Research Network: Comprehensive Initiative Will Develop and Validate Early Detection Markers for Cancer 12/8/98 Leadership Initiative on Cancer to Promote Research in Minority Communities 12/8/98 Comprehensive Research Effort Advanced on Tobacco Use 11/19/98 Questions and Answers on NCI's Tobacco Research Implementation Plan 11/19/98 NCI Continues to Conduct Research on Endostatin and Angiostatin 11/12/98 Estimating Breast Cancer Risk 11/11/98 Questions and Answers: New Findings About Interferon Therapy for Melanoma 11/9/98 Informed Consent: New Recommendations Aim to Simplify Documents, Improve Quality 10/22/98 Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene To Open in Early 1999 10/21/98 Breast Cancer Overview 10/6/98 Clinical Trials and Informatics 10/6/98 Scientists Report New Lead in the Regulation of HIV Coreceptor 10/6/98 Unconventional Innovations Program 10/6/98 With Herceptin® Now Available, Registration Ends for NCI's Expanded Access Program 10/6/98 Speeding Drug Discovery with the Chemistry-Biology Centers Program 10/5/98 Questions and Answers About Estimating Cancer Risk in Ashkenazi Jews Who Carry a Specific Mutation in Gene Previously Associated with Colon Cancer 9/31/98 Scientist Report New Strategy To Rapidly Assess Effectiveness of AIDS Drugs in Children 9/30/98 NCI Awards $15 Million to Study Cancer Survivors 9/30/98 Pilot of Computerized Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool Begins, Health Professionals Targeted 9/29/98 Herceptin's FDA Approval Means Drug Will Soon Be Available, Registration Will End for NCI's Expanded Access Program 9/29/98 Herceptin® Lottery Ends, Trials Expand to Include More Eligible Patients 9/22/98 Breast Cancer Prevention Trial Results Published 9/14/98 Cooperative Family Registry for Colorectal Cancer Studies 9/10/98 Network Launched to Support Studies of Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer 9/3/98 Increase in Childhood Brain Tumors Likely Due to Better Diagnosis and Reporting: Incidence Rise Coincides with Spread of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 9/1/98 Small Cancer Risk May Be Associated with Alteration in APC Gene 8/31/98 Questions and Answers About Estimating Cancer Risk in Ashkenazi Jews Who Carry a Specific Mutation in Gene Previously Associated with Colon Cancer 8/31/98 Method To Determine Age Individual Women Should Begin Mammogram Screening  8/28/98 No Increased Risk for Most Cancers Yet Observed in Daughters of Women Exposed to DES in the 1940s and 1950s 8/18/98 Interim Reports Published on Two European Breast Cancer Prevention Trials 7/9/98 The National Cancer Institute Cancer Centers Program: An Overvie 6/15/98 Modest Risks Found in First Population-Based Study of Outpatient Mastectomies 6/2/98 NCI Statement on Animal Studies of Endostatin and Angiostatin -- Revised 5/22/98 New Agreement Helps to Improve Transatlantic Cancer Clinical Research 5/19/98 Adding Taxol® to Initial Chemotherapy May Be New Option When Breast Cancer Has Spread to Lymph Nodes 5/18/98 Vande Woude Named New Director of NCI's Division of Basic Sciences 5/15/98 NCI Comment on the Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group Meta-Analysis of Tamoxifen for Early Breast Cancer  5/14/98 New Directions in Ovarian Cancer Research: Potential for Progress is Promising 5/12/98 New Brochure Helps Launch NCI Effort to Increase Cancer Treatment Trial Enrollment 5/4/98 Scientists Report New Lead in How Anthrax Kills Cells 4/30/98 Cigar Smoking Causes Several Cancers and Lung and Heart Disease 4/10/98 Breast Cancer Prevention Trial Shows Major Benefit, Some Risk 4/6/98 American College of Surgeons and National Cancer Institute Announce Funding of Clinical Trials Project 3/27/98 Study in Finland Suggests Vitamin E Prevents Prostate Cancer 3/17/98 New Report on Declining Cancer Incidence and Death Rates; Report Shows Progress in Controlling Cancer 3/12/98 Synthetic Peptide Vaccine for Melanoma Holds Promise 3/2/98 Note To Reporters And Editors 2/4/98 Vice President Gore Announces Historic Cancer Iinitiative 1/29/98 Scientists Discover A Third Gene Alteration That Slows Progression to AIDS 1/15/98 Prostate Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute 1/13/98 Current Press Releases | 1999 Press Releases | 1997 Press Releases | 1996 Press Releases