Preferred Label : NCI Unconventional Innovations Program;
NCIt synonyms : Unconventional Innovations Program; Unconventional Innovation Access Program; UIP;
NCIt definition : A program to spur development of daring technologic improvements in cancer treatment
and detection in the 21st century. A five-year, 48 million program which seeks to
stimulate development of radically new technologies in cancer care that can transform
what is now impossible into the realm of the possible for detecting, diagnosing, and
intervening in cancer at its earliest stages of development. The vision of the Unconventional
Innovations Program is to couple detection and diagnostic technologies based on remote
sensing to far less invasive treatments than those employed today which, though often
effective, can be uncomfortable and painful. The ultimate goal of the program is to
provide medical care for cancer patients that detects early cellular changes typical
of cancer and includes treatments that target molecular alterations from occurring
in an individual patient's cells. (from NIH news release 10/06/98);
Origin ID : C19982;
UMLS CUI : C1521911;
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