March 5, 1999
Lawmakers Push NIH to Focus Research on Minority Populations and Cancer
Critics want to know how much money is being spent and why racial disparities persist in certain diseases
The National Cancer Institute says it spent $124-million in 1997 on research and training programs dealing with cancer in minority and low-income Americans. But the Institute of Medicine puts the figure at $24-million, 1 per cent of the cancer institute's budget for that year.
The dispute over dollars, observers say, is one
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