Kimberly Leslie, a professor at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, was awarded a 5-year, $12.9 million grant from NCI. Leslie and her research team, which includes scientists from the Universities of Iowa, Utah, Kansas, Virginia, and California at San Diego, will study all available hormonal regimens to prevent and treat endometrial cancer.
In 1988, Frank McCormick learned with the rest of the field that more than 90% of patients with pancreatic cancer have a mutation in the Kirsten rat sarcoma viral gene.
