Breast Cancer Research
President Clinton, the assistant surgeon general, and a cancer activist who has survived breast cancer spoke about the…
Breast Cancer Prevention
1992-10-22T10:06:17-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/36c/033456-m.jpgThe subcommittee heard testimony from doctors, administrators and cancer patients on the federal government’s role in breast cancer research and prevention. Issues raised in the hearing included breast cancer research trials and federal cancer research funding. Officials of the National Institutes of Health defended a breast cancer research study against allegations that women participants were not adequately warned of the risks of the drug tamoxifen used in the trial.
The subcommittee heard testimony from doctors, administrators and cancer patients on the federal government’s role in breast cancer… read more
The subcommittee heard testimony from doctors, administrators and cancer patients on the federal government’s role in breast cancer research and prevention. Issues raised in the hearing included breast cancer research trials and federal cancer research funding. Officials of the National Institutes of Health defended a breast cancer research study against allegations that women participants were not adequately warned of the risks of the drug tamoxifen used in the trial. close
People in this video
- Gregory Burke U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Arthur Caplan Director University of Pennsylvania->Center for Biomedical Ethics
- Michael DeGregorio Professor University of Texas->Oncology
- Nancy Evans Vice President Breast Cancer Action
- Sybil Fainberg Chevy Chase, MD
- Leslie Ford Researcher National Cancer Institute
- Adriane Fugh-Berman M.D. Medical Adviser National Women's Health Resource Center
- Peter Greenwald Director National Cancer Institute->Cancer Prevention
- Bernadine Healy M.D. Director National Institutes of Health
- Carl Peck Director U.S. Food and Drug Administration->Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
- Steven Piantadosi Professor Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Thomas Puglisi National Institutes of Health
- Helen Rodriguez-Trias President American Public Health Association
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