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UK receives $6 million for Appalachia Community Cancer Network

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 21st, 2005

The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has received a $6 million grant to operate the seven-state Appalachia Community Cancer Network (ACCN). The center will receive $1.2 million a year for 5 years from the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI).

The ACCN is one of 25 grantees in the Community Networks Program, a national NCI research initiative to reduce cancer disparities through community participation in education, research and training. The networks will focus on smoking cessation, healthy eating and physical activity, as well as early detection and treatment of specific cancers.

Based at the UK Markey Cancer Center's Prevention Research...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2005-06-21)

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