Background: In 1991, Congress, at the urging of cancer patients advocates, requested that the NCI to establish the SPORE program—a team-science, multidisciplinary program of cancer translational research—with $20 million to bridge the gap between research in basic cancer biology and clinical studies in the four most prevalent organ-site malignancies in the United States: breast, prostate,…Continue Reading NCI Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) program