Left to right: Dennis J. Slamon, M.D., Ph.D., Frances M. Visco, J.D., Harold P. Freeman, M.D.

This report is submitted to the President of the United States in fulfillment of the obligations of the President’s Cancer Panel to appraise the National Cancer Program as established in accordance with the National Cancer Act of 1971 (P.L. 92-218), the Health Research Extension Act of 1987 (P.L. 99-158), the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-43), and Title V, Part A, Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 281 et seq).

The President’s Cancer Panel

Chair:

Harold P. Freeman, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Surgery
Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, NY 10032

Members:

Frances M. Visco, J.D.
President
National Breast Cancer Coalition
Washington, DC 20036

Dennis J. Slamon, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Division of Hematology-Oncology
University of California at Los Angeles
School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1678

For further information on the President’s Cancer Panel or additional copies of this report or online appendices, please contact:

Maureen O. Wilson, Ph.D.
Executive Secretary
President’s Cancer Panel
Building 31, Room 3A18
Bethesda, MD 20892
301-496-1148
pcp-r@mail.nih.gov

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