Medical (Academic) Books
NCI's Annual Report on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fiscal Year 2008
Provides an overview of National Cancer Institute (NCI)-supported work in the field of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), along with details on selected CAM projects relating to research, communications, training, and conferences.
Cancer Incidence and Survival Among Children and Adolescents: United States SEER Program 1975–1995.
Serves as a compendium of statistical trends and risk factors associated with childhood cancers.
Women, Tobacco, and Cancer: An Agenda for the 21st Century, Working Group Report
Describes the action plan developed by the Women, Tobacco and Cancer Working Group to stimulate scientific research and translate knowledge into interventions to prevent tobacco-related cancer in women in the United States and other countries.
Women, Tobacco, and Cancer: An Agenda for the 21st Century, Full Report
Presents recommendations from the Working Group on Women, Tobacco, and Cancer, a public/private partnership led by the National Cancer Institute.
Those Who Continue To Smoke: Is Achieving Abstinence Harder and Do We Need To Change Our Intervention
Describes various approaches that will be necessary to help more smokers quit.
The Role of the Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use. NCI Tobacco Control Monograph 19
Provides a critical, scientific review and synthesis of current evidence regarding the power of the media both to encourage and discourage tobacco use.
The Role of the Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use. NCI Tobacco Control Monograph 19, Execu
Provides an overview of the monograph, which examines the evidence regarding the power of the media both to encourage and discourage tobacco use.
The NCI Strategic Plan for Leading the Nation To Eliminate the Suffering and Death Due to Cancer, 20
Sets forth broad strategies that provide a framework for addressing challenges faced in dealing with cancer.
Changing Adolescent Smoking Prevalence: Where It Is and Why. NCI Tobacco Control Monograph 14
Reports some progress toward reducing tobacco use among adolescents, and also highlights areas in which more efforts are needed.
Charting the Course: Priorities for Breast Cancer Research, Report of the Breast Cancer Progress Rev
Describes the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) current activities in breast cancer and discusses important research directions and activities needed to conquer breast cancer.