Cancer research at Sanford-Burnham aims to pre-empt cancer before it develops, detect cancer at its earliest point and eliminate cancer’s deadly spread, confining the disease as a condition treatable with surgery. Other major efforts at the Cancer Center include developing targeting technologies that deliver anti-cancer drugs specifically to the tumor -- thereby avoiding side-effects -- and technologies for tricking cancer cells into committing suicide through restoration of a natural mechanism for cell death.
The Cancer Center is an interdisciplinary effort mobilizing over 400 individuals working in a highly collaborative and interactive program structure, each of which addresses a particular aspect of cancer.
Cancer research is funded by individual grants to Sanford-Burnham scientists, and since 1981, support in the form of a cancer center grant from the National Cancer Institute as an NCI-sponsored Basic Cancer Center. The "basic cancer center" designation indicates that Sanford-Burnham's Cancer Center is focused entirely on cancer-related research rather than a combination of research and clinical management of cancer patients.
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