"The Cures" Overview

Cans for Cures respects the needs of every community to find ways to create cures for the diseases that each of us. We have chosen to create Cans for Cures in the hopes that grassroots efforts can help people across the spectrum of human experience to start "kicking over rocks" in their quest to find new cures and treatments.

National Cancer Institute

Our overall guiding principles are in line with the National Cancer Institute. The NCI’s stated mission is to "conduct and support research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer and the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients."

The National Cancer Program consists of an expanded, intensified, and coordinated cancer research program encompassing the research programs conducted and supported by the institute, and the related research programs of the other national research institutes, including an expanded and intensified research program for the prevention of cancer caused by occupational or environmental exposure to carcinogens.

The National Cancer Institute also conducts control research for the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer and for the rehabilitation and continuing care needs of patients respecting cancer. All cancer prevention and control activities focus on reducing cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality through an orderly sequence of research on interventions and their impact in defined populations to the broad application of the research results through demonstration and education programs.

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