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News from the NCI
Breast Cancer Prevention Trial
NCI Statement on Animal Studies of Endostatin and Angiostatin
News from the NCI
BREAST CANCER PREVENTION TRIAL
Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health
Statement of Richard D. Klausner, M.D., Director, National Cancer Institute Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Human Services and Related Agencies
April 21, 1998
Good afternoon, Senator Specter and members of the Subcommittee. I am Richard Klausner, Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). I am pleased to testify before you today on a remarkable advance in cancer prevention.
The goal of preventing cancer has long been a hope and a
central focus of the National Cancer Program. Prevention can
take many forms, from smoking cessation and other behavioral
changes to vaccines or antimicrobial agents against
cancer-causing infections to a new field in which medicines
specifically interfere with the biologic processes of cancer
development. For the past