Cancer
MMRF researchers
at the HCMC Comprehensive Cancer Center are committed to research into
the treatment and prevention of many forms of cancer and the training
of physicians and other health care professionals.
The majority
of MMRF's cancer research involves the evaluation of cancer treatments.
Breast cancer studies are comparing new therapies to those currently used.
Research in colon cancer is comparing the effectiveness of an oral chemotherapy
versus an intravenous chemotherapy in treating the disease. Research in
the area of rectal cancer is evaluating whether chemotherapy both preoperatively
and postoperatively is more effective than the current treatment of chemotherapy
only after surgery. The Cancer Research Program was also involved in the
only nationwide breast cancer prevention study, the Breast Cancer Prevention
Trial (BCPT). The study showed that women who are at an increased risk
of developing breast cancer show a 49 percent reduction in breast cancer
incidence when taking the drug Tamoxifen.
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