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OHSU Cancer Institute - Cancer Treatment and Information
Description
History and Background
The OHSU Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, the only health sciences academic center in the state of Oregon, was designated as a Clinical Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute in 1997. The 200 members of the center seek to develop innovative, less toxic and more effective strategies of cancer prevention, treatment, diagnosis and control by applying new discoveries in cancer cell biology in molecular genetics. Programs in cancer prevention and control, hormonal and reproductive malignancies, hematologic malignancies, experimental therapeutics, cancer biology, and complementary medicine function to foster interdisciplinary interactions between basic and clinical researchers.
The translation of laboratory results into new preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic methods is facilitated by seven shared resources of the center, each of which provides services to cancer center members to promote interdisciplinary research throughout OHSU. The cancer center administration, shared resources and programs provide an organizational context that promotes a coherent interdepartmental focus on developing innovative strategies for dealing with the problem of cancer. Members of the center are active in federally funded, multicenter cancer study groups (ECOG, SWOG, NSABP, GOG, and CCG). There has been a major commitment in the past three years to the development of institutional clinical trials of a translational nature.
The resources of the OHSU Hospital, the university’s outpatient clinics, and the Portland VA Medical Center, adjacent to the cancer center on the same campus, provide an unusual opportunity for both basic and clinical research in the largest metropolitan region of our state. Because half of the population of Oregon and Southwest Washington is rural, the center is additionally committed to the development of effective programs of cancer education and control tailored to citizens outside of urban centers.
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