Abstract

This application for a Cancer Education Grant is submitted by a group of basic and clinical researchers who are affiliated with the NCI-sponsored Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) of Dartmouth Medical School. Application is made for the summer stipends of 15 medical and nursing students who would gain research experience In the laboratories of the Cancer Center members in the areas of: Molecular Virology, Immunology (both basic and clinical), Molecular Genetics, Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis, Endocrinology, Clinical Cancer Research, Cancer Chemotherapy, Radiation Biology, and Clinical Nursing Research. Applications for these clinical assistantships will be evaluated by a Cancer Education Committee, chaired by the Deputy Director of the NCCC and those with the best ratings will be funded. In addition, the Cancer Education Committee will participate in recruitment of minority students for these assistantships as well as contribute to the recruitment of minority college students to Dartmouth Medical School.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Education Projects (R25)
Project #
5R25CA019379-18
Application #
2086764
Study Section
Cancer Education Review Committee (CEC)
Project Start
1976-07-01
Project End
1996-06-30
Budget Start
1994-07-01
Budget End
1995-06-30
Support Year
18
Fiscal Year
1994
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Dartmouth College
Department
Pharmacology
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
041027822
City
Hanover
State
NH
Country
United States
Zip Code
03755

  Publications

Cialdella-Kam, Lynn; Sabado, Parichart; Bispeck, M Katherine et al. (2012) Implementing cancer prevention into clinical practice. J Cancer Educ 27:S136-43
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Dole, G F; Carney, P A (1998) Characteristics of underserved women who did and those who did not use a free/low-cost voucher as part of a mammography screening program. J Cancer Educ 13:102-7
Nugent, W C; Edney, M T; Hammerness, P G et al. (1997) Non-small cell lung cancer at the extremes of age: impact on diagnosis and treatment. Ann Thorac Surg 63:193-7
Brown, P J; Carney, P A (1996) Health beliefs and alternative medicine: a qualitative study of breast cancer patients. J Cancer Educ 11:226-9
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Harrigan, P M; Douple, E B; Wills, M L (1992) Potentiation of hyperthermia in a murine tumour by metabolic inhibitors rhodamine 123 and 2-deoxy-D-glucose or 5-thio-D-glucose. Int J Hyperthermia 8:475-83
Jones, E L; Douple, E B (1990) The effect of in vivo GSH depletion on thermosensitivity, radiosensitivity and thermal radiosensitization. Int J Hyperthermia 6:951-5
Jones, E L; Douple, E B (1990) Effect of step-down heating on brachytherapy in a murine tumor system. Radiat Res 124:141-6

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