It's a national clinical research group sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), with its Central Office headquartered at the University of Chicago and its Statistical Center located at Duke University. A CALGB research is focused on seven major disease areas: leukemia, lymphoma, breast cancer, lung cancer, gastrointestinal malignancies, genito-urinary malignancies, and melanoma. In each of these areas, multi-modality treatment programs are designed by national experts in an attempt to cure more patients with cancer.
Originador(es): University of Chicago, Duke University, National Cancer Institute
Recurso adicionado em:
23/09/2002
Objetivo:
CALGB aim: reducing the morbidity and mortality from cancer, relating the biological characteristics of cancer to clinical outcomes and developing new strategies for the early detection and prevention of cancer.
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Inglês