A Stronger Cancer Centers Program Report of a Study (1989) / Chapter Skim
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Strengthening Program Management and Organization
Strengthening Program Management and Organization
Pages 20-24
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Strengthening Program Management and Organization Strengthening the capacity of cancer centers to exploit the unprecedented opportunities to incorporate emerging scientific advances into better cancer prevention and treatment, including consideration of needs and impacts in human terms, wall require organizational changes and increased management capacity for the core grant program. The- specific decisions, however, should be left to the director of NCT, who is in the best position to determine effective ways to improve the program's location, representation, and oversight and to strengthen the program's capacity for data gathering, planning, evaluation, and implementation.
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The cancer centers core grant program has gone through a number of organizational changes that have isolated the program from high-level decision making and from related programs within NCI. The program's expanded role in translating basic biological and behavioral research advances into better prevention and treatment programs and practices wall require increased representation of the program in decision making about the national cancer program.
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The committee recommends that the National Cancer Institute substantially strengthen the management capabilities of the cancer centers program unit. That unit must be able adequately to plan, monitor, evaluate, and implement the cancer centers program.
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Stronger program management also depends on an increased capacity to collect and analyze, systematically and on an ongoing basis, data on the activities and accomplishments of the cancer centers both locally and nationally. Additional funds will be needed for the systematic and ongoing data collection and analysis that is required.
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the staff to develop new issues and options to update the long-range plan and ensure that it remains a viable document.
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