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HRD-80-53 1 (1980-02-28)

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                 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                          WASHINGTON, D.C.  2048


                                          FEBRUARY 28, 1980
 B-197656


 The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy
 Chairman, Subcommittee on Health
   and Scientific Research
 Committee on Labor and Human Resources
 United States Senate

 Dear Mr. Chairman:

      Subject: [Review of -he National Cancer Institute's
                Acquisition and Screening of Plant Extracts /
                (HRD-80-53)

      Your January 18, 1979, letter asked us to review
 selected research management activities of the National
 Institutes of Health (,a . In later meetings with your
 office, four issues were selected for indepth review. The
 results of our work will be provided to the Subcommittee
 in three reports.

      This first report covers the portion of your request
 concerning the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Division
 of Cancer Treatment. As agreed with your office, we focused
 on two areas within the Division's Developmental Therapeutics
 Program (DTP):

      --Methods for acquiring plants to avoid excessive
        duplications.

      --Efforts to develop more effective and economic
        screens to identify chemical agents that may be
        useful in cancer chemotherapy.

 INTRODUCTION

      NCI's goal is to develop the means for reducing the
 incidence, morbidity, and mortality of cancer. Through
 grants and contracts to universities, medical schools, and
 nonprofit research organizaticns, NCI uses its research
 funds to investigate the nature of cancer and its causes
 and prevention, diagnosis, and cure. NCI was reorganized






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