Extraordinary Opportunities for Investment

**Semantic type:** Research Activity

**Definition:** Research areas of exceptional promise in the cancer field. To qualify as extraordinary opportunities these research initiatives must: Respond to important recent developments in knowledge and technology; Offer approaches to cancer research beyond the size, scope, and funding of our current research activities; Be implemented with specific, defined investments; Be described in terms of achievable milestones, with clear consequences for not investing; and Promise advances for making progress against all cancers. (from 2001 Bypass Budget)

**Synonyms:** - Extraordinary Opportunities in Cancer Research