GREETINGS
--- Together with communities, countries, the world, and you ---
The Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research has opened this homepage to introduce its activities and to provide information on cancer control. We hereby thank you for warm supports extended continuously to the foundation.
Cancer has been the leading cause of deaths in Japan, with one person out of three dying of the disease. More people are dying of cancer as the population gets older. The countermeasure for cancer control is an increasingly serious issue for countries as well as each of us.
The foundation conducts a wide range of activities to promote the health of people and to overcome cancer in cooperation with other regions and countries around the world. They include "The 2nd Term Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control", which was started in 1994 in a joint effort by the private and public sectors. The foundation has been promoting the supporting research activities to clarify the nature of cancer and to establish preventive measures and cures for the disease, the developing medical researchers and workers, including physicians or nurses, and the prevailing accurate information on health, especially on preventing cancer.
The foundation is committed to consolidating its efforts to overcome cancer as a "bridge to tomorrow" connecting the general population including cancer patients and their families to the health and medical specialists.
Thank you for your kind cooperation.
Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research
Chairman: Sho Nasu
President:Masataka Koda
Executive Director: Makoto Doi
History of the foundation
Amid people's call to find the way for cancer control, the Foundation
for Promotion of Cancer Research was set up in September 1968 with the
approval of the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
The foundation consolidated its efforts to promote cancer researches,
to develop researchers and technicians, to prevail accurate information
for cancer including prevention.
The establishment of "The Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control"
was approved by the Cabinet in June 1983 to promote cancer research and
other activities through joint efforts by the private and public sectors.
Under this strategy, the Association for Cancer and Research was assigned
the task of implementing a wide range of activities in the private sector.
After partial revisions in 1984 of provisions regarding donations, the
Foundation was restructured and strengthened its organization. As part
of the reorganization, the International Lecture Hall was completed in
1985. It has played important roles in offering conferences or presentations
of researches.
"The Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control", which started
in October 1984, achieved fruitful results in various fields, such as
the discovery of the nature of cancer and the development of cures and
preventive measures. This program was followed in 1994 by "The 2nd Term
Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control". The foundation is
committed to aggressively reinforcing its activities, ranging from project
support, research aid, and prevailing accurate information on cancer.
Purpose of the foundation
The Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research aims to control cancer and thus to contribute to promoting the health and welfare of the people, through the promotion of researches on cancer and the other neoplastic diseases, (including the development of cures and preventive measures and the improvement the Quality of Life).
Activities of the foundation
The Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research is engaged in the following activities with respect to cancer and other neoplastic diseases.
1. Promotion of research (basic and clinical research).
2. Promotion of development of diagnosis and treatment techniques.
3. International cooperation and exchange of research activities.
4. Development of researchers and medical technicians (including physicians and nurses).
5. Support in promotion of research activities.
6. Provision of information (including publications, lectures, preventive exhibitions and public lectures).
7. Contact and cooperation with internal and external organizations.
8. Other activities necessary to achieve the purposes of the foundation.
- THE 2ND TERM COMPREHENSIVE 10-YEAR STRATEGY FOR CANCER CONTROL -
HISTORY
The Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research was established in September 1968 by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan to support various activities for cancer research.
The decision by the Cabinet Council in March 1984 to promote "The Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control" in Japan allowed the foundation to be reorganized as a non-governmental non-profit organization collaborating with the Japanese government and research institutes including the National Cancer Center.
The first 10-year term was completed in 1993 with excellent results, which include the discovery of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, as well as establishment and demonstration of the concept of multistage carcinogenesis.
From 1994 the new program, "The 2nd Term Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control", started.
PURPOSE
The objectives of the foundation include the promotion of cancer research
and the support of the 2nd Term Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer
Control by the government. The foundation contributes to cancer research
in the following ways:
- Supports a training program for basic researchers and clinicians
- Promotes international cooperation and exchange of programs
- Provides grants to support cancer research
- Provides information on cancer research to the general public
THE 2ND TERM COMPREHENSIVE 10-YEAR STRATEGY FOR CANCER CONTROL
The aim of the 2nd Term 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control is to further
promote the basic research involved in carcinogenesis and to apply this
knowledge for cancer prevention, early diagnosis, successful therapy and
also improvement of the quality of life (QOL) of patients. The major research
fields of the project are listed below and are compared with previous
ones.
The Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control (1984 - 1993)
Project Research
Research Related to:
- Human Oncogenes
- Human Virus-related Cancer
- Tumor Promotion and Its Control
- New Technologies for Early Diagnosis
- New Therapeutic Procedures
- Immunomodulation and Immunomodulators
- Research Supporting Systems
(1) Expenditure for "Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control"
- Program to Invite Foreign Scientists to Japan
- Research Resident Fellowship
- Program to Send Japanese Scientists Abroad and Research Fund for Foreign Research Institutes
- Others (Administrative Expenses)
(2) Research Supporting Systems by Private Funds
- The Nippon Foundation
- Japan Keirin Association
- Japan Motorcycle Racing Organization
- The Japan Lottery Association
The 2nd Term Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control (1994 -
2003)
Project Research
Research Related to:
- Molecular Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
- Invasion, Metastasis and Characteristics of Cancer Cell
- Cancer Susceptibility and Immunity
- Cancer Prevention
- New Methods for Cancer Diagnosis
- New Methods for Cancer Therapy
- Quality of Life (QOL) of Cancer Patients
Research Supporting Systems
(1) Expenditure for "The 2nd Term Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for
Cancer Control"
- Program to Invite Foreign Scientists to Japan
- Research Resident Fellowship
- Program to Send Japanese Scientists Abroad and Research Fund for
Foreign Research Institutes
- Others (Administrative Expenses)
(2) Research Supporting Systems by Private Funds
- Japan Keirin Association
- Japan Motorcycle Racing Organization
- The Japan Lottery Association
Cancer Information Network Project
Total Supporting System for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy
- Cancer Information Services
- High-level Image Processing Systems for Diagnosis and Therapy
- Nationwide Network
RESEARCH RESIDENTS
Research residents correspond to postdoctoral fellows and will be the
core cancer researchers in the near future.
The Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control
| Fiscal Year | Background | Total | ||||
| Medicine | Dentistry | Biochemistry | Pharmacology | Agriculture | ||
| 1984-1993 | 345 | 9 | 36 | 44 | 19 | 453 |
The 2nd Term Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control
| Fiscal Year | Background | Total | |||||
| Medicine | Dentistry | Biochemistry | Pharmacology | Agriculture | Others | ||
| 1994 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 42 |
| 1995 | 48 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 59 |
| 1996 | 52 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 69 |
| 1997 | 59 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 76 |
| 1998 | 65 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 83 |
| 1999 | 71 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 89 |
| Total | 333 | 13 | 7 | 33 | 10 | 22 | 418 |
EXCHANGE PROGRAM FOR JAPANESE RESEARCHERS
The program supports Japanese cancer researchers in carrying out cancer
research in foreign countries.
RESEARCH CONTRACTS WITH FOREIGN INSTITUTES
Research contracts are awarded to foreign institutes for promotion of
international collaboration to efficiently conduct cancer problems.
GUEST RESEARCHERS
Scientists are invited from foreign countries to promote international
cooperative study.
The Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control
| Fiscal Year | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | Total |
| No. of Researchers | 13 | 32 | 37 | 45 | 48 | 29 | 47 | 39 | 34 | 27 | 351 |
The 2nd Term Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control
| Country | Fiscal Year | ||||||
| 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | Total | |
| U.S.A. | 5 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 21 | 9 | 58 |
| U.K. | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 23 |
| Germany | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | - | 9 |
| France | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| Italy | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | 10 |
| Korea | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 4 | - | - | - | 1 | 10 |
| Canada | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 4 |
| Australia | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 13 |
| Egypt | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Switzerland | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Thailand | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Sweden | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Poland | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Spain | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Israel | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| South Africa | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| China | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Philippine | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Total | 15 | 25 | 26 | 21 | 48 | 31 | 166 |
INTERNATIONAL CANCER SYMPOSIA
International symposia are held on current topics in cancer research with
more emphasis on clinical research
| Fiscal Year | Subjects | |
| 1st | 1987 | Fundamental and Clinical Research in Lung Cancer |
| 2nd | 1988 | Fundamental and Clinical Research in Liver Cancer |
| 3rd | 1989 | Fundamental and Clinical Research in Multiple Primary Cancer |
| 4th | 1990 | Fundamental and Clinical Research in Urogenital Cancer |
| 5th | 1991 | Fundamental and Clinical Research in Pancreas and Biliary Tract Cancers |
| 6th | 1992 | Fundamental and Clinical Research in Esophageal Cancer |
| 7th | 1993 | Fundamental and Clinical Research in Lung Cancer |
| 8th | 1994 | Basic and Clinical Research in Colorectal Cancer |
| 9th | 1995 | Basic and Clinical Research in Brain Tumors |
| 10th | 1996 | Basic and Clinical Research in Head and Neck Cancer |
| 11th | 1997 | Basic and Clinical Research in Gastric Cancer |
| 12th | 1998 | Basic and Clinical Research in Breast Cancer |
| 13th | 1999 | Cancer Screening -Past, Present, and Future- |
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| LECTURE PROGRAM The world's leading scientists in the fields of cancer research are invited to give lectures on their work and its prospectives. |
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| PUBLIC RELATIONS Informative pamphlets, posters and calendars are prepared for the transfer of information on cancer prevention and treatment to the general public. |
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| EXHIBITIONS AND SCIENTIFIC
LECTURES Exhibitions and scientific lectures are held throughout Japan to deliver recent information on cancer. |
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INTERNATIONAL LECTURE HALL
The hall opened in August 1985, and is used for many international symposia
and domestic meetings.
| DONATIONS The Foundation is supported by a government subsidy and nongovernmental organizations. The Foundation has also been donated by the Showa Emperor and Empress in commemoration of their 60th wedding anniversary. Donations from companies and individuals, especially from bereaved families who have lost family member of cancer, have been greatly contributed to the activities of the program. |
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