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Solving Short-term Funding Issues
Pages 12-16

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... the clinical and consortium cancer centers, however, constitute an environment that is particularly conducive to the translation of scientific advances and breakthroughs into improved patient care practices and programs of cancer prevention and control. Laboratory science centers also are developing relationships with clinical programs, as well as continuing basic research on the causes and mechanisms of cancer that should result in improved methods of prevention.
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From page 13...
... . FIGURE 7 Share of NCI Budget Devoted to Cancer Center Core Grants and Research Project Grants (RPGs)
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... . The centers dropped from the program would most likely be clinical centers if the basic science centers continue to receive better peer-rev~ew priority scores, as they ~ These are net totals that do not indicate substantial turnover among centers in the program.
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... ~ NCT estimates that $17.9 minion wall remain-for the 19 competing centers after funds are allocated for the 41 continuing centers, for administrative supplements and contracts, and for the supplemental grants for minority programs administered by DEA. The current level of support- for the 17 centers up for renewal is nearly $21 million.
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... And because basic science centers tend to receive better priority scores on average than clinical centers, as noted previously, the centers that are lost will most likely be the clinical or comprehensive centers, where the interactions between laboratory scientists and clinicians take place that are necessary to develop patient-care applications of emerging scientific advances. Actions Needed The committee is recommending that the director of NCI take immediate steps to prevent erosion of the program's base during the current fiscal year (1989)
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