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Annals of Oncology 14:1593-1594, 2003
© 2003 European Society for Medical Oncology

Editorial

Cancer research: joint planning for the future

P. Nurse1, J. Pattison2, G. Radda3 and L. O’Toole4

1 Cancer Research UK; 2 National Health Service Research and Development; 3 Medical Research Council; 4 National Cancer Research Institute, London, UK

*E-mail: liam.otoole@ncri.org.uk

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It is now >2 years since the major UK cancer research funders in the government, charity and private sectors agreed to establish the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) [1]. The role of the NCRI is to maintain a strategic oversight of cancer research in the UK, identify gaps and opportunities, and coordinate activities between member organisations in order to tackle major issues. So, is this partnership benefiting cancer research in the UK?

Early on in this process, it was agreed that if the NCRI was to make an impact it would need to focus on issues that no single organisation could tackle effectively alone. Therefore, NCRI activities have initially . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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