For Release: November 9, 2009
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Mary Hawkins, director of communications, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, at mary.s.hawkins@dartmouth.edu or 603-653-3615, or
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Anna A.N. Tosteson
Tosteson, colleagues earn NCI grant
Lebanon, N.H.—The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently awarded a two-year grant to Anna N. A. Tosteson, Sc.D, and colleagues at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) and The Dartmouth Institute (TDI), to use comparative effectiveness research (CER) in evaluating imaging technology for detecting cancer and determining treatment.
Dr. Tosteson, a professor of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), has also received NCI funding through a supplement to the NCCC Core Grant to establish a CER shared resource. The NCCC/TDI collaboration will establish a multi-institutional Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research in Cancer Imaging, creating the infrastructure and methodologies to promote and facilitate CER planning for future trials through the American College of Radiology Imaging Network and the Tufts Evidence-Based Practice Center.
Imaging technology is emerging as an important component of efforts to effectively detect and treat cancer. This funding will allow the Dartmouth scientists and practitioners to define new approaches to understanding the best uses of advanced imaging in cancer.
The Dartmouth team also will undertake specific CER projects for positron emission tomograph (PET), using the National Oncologic PET registry and Medicare administrative claims data, and extend an NCI-funded National Lung Screening Trial.