1999 Press Releases
NCI Establishes Consortium to Develop Mouse Models of Human Cancers
12/28/99 NCI Expands Office of Cancer Survivorship Web Site
12/14/99 The National Cancer Institute Publishes New Atlas of Cancer Mortality
12/08/99
NCI Awards First Grants for the Director's Challenge
12/03/99 Environmental Tobacco Smoke Linked to Lung Cancer and Other Health Effects
11/22/99 NCI Announces Major Enhancements to CancerNetTM Web Site
11/17/99 Scientists Report First Responses in Cancer Patients to A Recombinant Immunotoxin
11/8/99 Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Tamoxifen to Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer
11/2/99 Misconceptions Persist Among Older Women In Spite Of Rising Mammography Rates
10/20/99 Federal Institutes and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Create Tobacco Use Research Centers
10/18/99 NCI Awards First Contracts for Unconventional Innovations Program
10/8/99 NCI Announces SPORE Grants for Ovarian Cancer Research
10/7/99 NCI Begins Funding Early Detection Research Network: 18 Biomarker Developmental Laboratories Seek Tests for Common Cancers
10/6/99 Monitoring NCI-Sponsored Clinical Trials
10/4/99 United States and Ireland Establish Historic Cancer Collaboration
10/3/99 Lymphoma Vaccine Enters Large-Scale Clinical Trials
9/27/99 NCI Assists Establishment of DNA Microarray Facilities
9/21/99 NCI's Role in the Development of Endostatin
9/15/99 New Study Will Assess Colorectal Cancer Screening Practices
9/8/99 Monograph Highlights Research in Native American Populations
8/26/99 NCI's Tumor Gene Index Reaches Its Two-Year Mark
8/10/99 NCI's Division of Clinical Sciences Will Test Thalidomide in Patients with Advanced Colon Cancer
8/6/99 NCI Leases New Supercomputer
8/2/99 HMO Research Network Receives NCI Funding to Establish Cancer Research Network
7/20/99 Dinah Singer Named New Director of NCI's Division of Cancer Biology
7/19/99 NCI Will Test New Drugs for Colorectal Cancer Throughout North America
6/30/99 Questions and Answers About the 6C (Cooperative Colorectal Cancer Combination Chemotherapy Clinical) Trial
6/30/99 Prostate Imaging Treatment Initiative Announced
6/25/99 Scientists Suggest New Approaches for Development of AIDS Drugs and Vaccines
6/21/99 Publication of the MORE Trial Results Supports Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene
6/15/99 NCI Releases New Human Gene Variation Resource
6/8/99 Breast Cancer Prevention Study Seeks Volunteers: Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR) Under Way Across North America.
5/25/99 Questions and Answers: The Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR)
5/25/99 Important Points About the Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR)
5/25/99 Statement by Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala on the Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene
5/25/99 Preguntas y respuestas acerca del Estudio del Tamoxifeno y Raloxifeno (STAR)
5/25/99 Declaraci=n de la Secretaria del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de los Estados Unidos, Donna E. Shalala, acerca del Estudio de Tamoxifeno y Raloxifeno
5/25/99
National Cancer Institute Launches Capital Area SERM Study
5/20/99
5/10/99 NCI Awards Contract for Geographic Information System To Support Breast Cancer Research on Long Island
5/7/99 Questions and Answers: NCI’s Contract Award for Geographic Information System To Support Breast Cancer Research on Long Island
5/7/99 Scientists Report Rapid Telomere Shortening in Infants
4/29/99 Annual Report Shows Continuing Decline in U.S. Cancer Incidence and Death Rates; Special Section Focuses on Lung Cancer and Tobacco Smoking
4/20/99 Questions and Answers: Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1973-1996, With a Special Section on Lung Cancer and Tobacco Smoking
4/20/99 Interim Results of Large Trials of High-Dose Chemotherapy With Bone Marrow or Stem Cell Transplants for Breast Cancer
4/15/99 Questions and Answers: High-Dose Chemotherapy With Bone Marrow or Stem Cell Transplants for Breast Cancer
4/15/99 Research on Cervical Cancer Vaccines
4/12/99 Childhood Brain Tumors: Facts and Figures
4/6/99 NCI Launches New Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
4/5/99 Angiogenesis Inhibitors in Cancer Research
4/2/99 NCI and Sugen to Collaborate on Development of Anti-Cancer Agent
4/2/99 NCI and DOD Launch Pilot Project for Coding Cancer Grants
3/29/99 New Project Launched to Study Minority Populations
3/26/99 NCI Names Two Sites for Early Endostatin Trials
3/25/99 Drug Discovery at National Cancer Institute
3/16/99 Scientists Report New Lead in the Genetics of HIV Resistance
3/11/99 High-Dose Chemotherapy/ Bone Marrow Transplant Studies for Breast Cancer
3/10/99 Current Status of Research on Simian Virus 40
3/2/99
Clinical Announcement on Cervical Cancer: Chemotherapy Plus Radiation Improves Survival
2/22/99
2/16/99
ORI Reports Fabricated and/or Falsified
Data for Three Patients on NCI-Sponsored Studies
2/5/99
Platinum-Based Chemotherapy for Ovarian
Cancer Carries Increased Risk of Leukemia
2/3/99
NCI's Statement on the IOM Report on
the Unequal Burden of Cancer
1/20/99
National Cancer Institute Research on Causes of Cancers in Children
1/5/99
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