BOX 7.5 Current Extramural Health Services Research Projects on Cancers Other than Breast Cancer Supported by NCI
Prevention and Screening:
- Prevention and control of skin cancer
- Cost-effectiveness of human papillomavirus screening for cervical cancer
- Abnormal Pap smears--what is cost-effective management?
- Single-visit cervical cancer prevention program
- Improving colorectal cancer screening
- Adding new fecal occult blood tests to sigmoidoscopy
- Enhancing diagnostic evaluation in colorectal cancer screening
Treatment:
- Prostate cancer in relation to vasectomy
- Cost-effectiveness of lung cancer chemotherapy
- Data resource for analyzing blood and marrow transplants
- Medical decision making in bone marrow transplantation
- Determinants of access to pediatric cancer care
- Minimally invasive surgery in children with cancer
- Staging and monitoring musculoskeletal sarcomas
- Pain relief in pancreatic cancer
- Minimal access surgery for pancreatic cancer
- Cancer and leukemia Group B--Minnesota Oncology Group
- Rehabilitation of patients with head and neck cancer
- CCSP in head and neck cancer rehabilitation
- Psychosocial factors in adjustment of bone marrow transplant survivors
SOURCES: Brenda K. Edwards, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, personal communication to Maria Hewitt, November 1998; http://www.nih.gov/grants/ guide/pa; Martin Brown, Head, Health Services and Economics Section, Applied Research Branch, CSRP, DCCPS, NCI, personal communication to Maria Hewitt, December 1998; HSRProj, 1998.
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