Extraordinary Opportunity: Cancer Communications

**Semantic type:** Research Activity

**Definition:** Research of exceptional promise in the area of cancer communications, including disseminating cancer information to all audiences who will benefit, including patients, caregivers, health professionals, researchers, and the news media, both in the United States and abroad. Research initiatives must respond to important recent developments in knowledge and technology; offer approaches to cancer communications 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 NCI OPCL and 2001 Bypass Budget)