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The Division’s goal is aligned with the NCI’s vision to stimulate and support scientific discovery and its application to achieve a future when all cancers are uncommon and easily treated.
We take various paths toward this goal, but we emphasize those strategies that move the field from empiricism toward an increasingly scientific and mechanistic basis. Our activities involve a large segment of the cancer research community in the US and abroad. The Division attempts to identify and exploit the most promising areas of science and technology and to initiate, enable and conduct research that will yield important new knowledge that is likely to lead to better diagnostic or therapeutic interventions in the various cancers that affect children and adults. We work towards this goal through the administration of grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements, as well as a series of strategically planned workshops and conferences with scientists, clinicians, public and private partners, and a vigorous program of in-house applied research tied to investigators and goals in the extramural community.
We strive to reach this goal through carefully planned and integrated activities of the Office of the Director and the six components of the Division. The Division operates through teams of highly qualified multidisciplinary program staff and administrative support staff. The disciplines are broad in scope and include medical, radiation and surgical oncologists, diagnostic radiologists, pathologists, pharmacologists, nurses, advanced degree statisticians, biologists, biochemists, chemists, microbiologists, physicists, computer specialists, and regulatory experts primarily acting through team approaches with other staff, extramural investigators, and other public and private agencies and industries.
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