Tag Archives: National Cancer Institute

Mayo Clinic Responds to NCI’s Lung Cancer Trial Results Showing Mortality Benefit with Low-Dose CT

November 4th, 2010 - 3:54 pm

The National Cancer Institute released initial results of the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NLST), a randomized national trial including more than 53,000 current and former heavy smokers ages 55 to 74. The trial compared the effectiveness of two lung … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Awarded Major Grant for Ovarian Cancer Research

August 28th, 2009 - 12:25 pm

Investigators at the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center have received a five-year, $11.5 million grant to translate research into treatments for women with ovarian cancer. Every year in the United States, more than 16,000 women die from the disease and another … Continue reading →

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