What is the role of the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC)?
The NCIC provides funding for basic (laboratory) research, behavioural research, and clinical trials for all types of cancer. The NCIC is the research arm of the Canadian Cancer Society. It provides project funding for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and technicians working on research teams. The BC and Yukon Division of the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) congratulates scientists awarded funding by the NCIC for 2002/03 new and/or continuing CCS research grants. Research scientists listed below are affiliated with the BC Cancer Agency, the BC Cancer Research Centre, the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University. BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) researchers who were awarded NCIC funding: • Kim Chi is studying ways make various prostate cancer treatments more effective. The team in Vancouver has identified that a gene called Clusterin, results in the survival of cancer cells in the body despite hormone, radiation and chemotherapy treatments. To
