For more information about cancer, please visit the NCI Web site at www.cancer.gov, or call NCI's Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4 CANCER (1-800-422-6237).

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) - The Nation's Medical Research Agency - includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
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Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, Wash.; Information Management Services, Rockville, Md.; Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics and Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md.; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Md.; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa.; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.; The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

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