NIC's Annual Report on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Fiscal Year 2007

摘要

Each year, Congress requests a report of the National Cancer Institutes (NCI) annual expenditures in complementary and alternative medicine* (CAM) research. To give more meaning to the numbers provided to Congress, a more detailed account of the Institutes investment in CAM has been produced for the last few years. The reports (including last years NCIs Annual Report on Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Fiscal Year 2006) are intended as a way for NCI to communicate its progress in this area of medical research, not only to Congress but also to other interested stakeholders including cancer researchers, CAM practitioners, health care providers, advocacy organizations, cancer patients, and the general public. This year, NCIs Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) is proud to present the latest such report, NCI's Annual Report on Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Fiscal Year 2007. Similar to the previous reports, this publication provides an overview of the NCI-supported work in this field along with details on selected projects in the areas of cancer CAM relating to communication, training and conferences, and research. This report highlights projects, grants, and cooperative agreements supported by each of the Institutes extramural grant funding divisions--Division of Cancer Biology, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Division of Cancer Prevention, and Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD)--along with projects from NCIs intramural laboratories Center for Cancer Research (CCR) and Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.