Cancer Research in Switzerland - Krebsliga Schweiz

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Editorial
For more than 100 years the Swiss Cancer League
has been supporting cancer research in academia.
And for the past 20 years, it has been doing so
together with the Foundation Cancer Research
Switzerland. Their goal is to support the highest
quality research projects so as to achieve continuous
advancements in order to better prevent cancer, to
detect the disease earlier, to treat it more successfully,
or at least to better alleviate the effects of
cancer. For both organizations, the main focus of
their funding strategy is patient-centred research.
We are very pleased to report that we were able to
invest new record sums in cancer-specific research in
the years 2009 and 2010. In this period the number
of research proposals submitted and the amount of
funding applied for also reached new record highs.
This trend began already 10 years ago: Whereas
the amount of funding applied for tripled in the last
10 years, it was at least possible to double the
amount of the funds granted. Here we would like to
express a special note of thanks to the members of
the Scientific Committee for their outstanding work.
This fourth edition of the cancer research report
presents the results of the completed research pro-
jects and the topics studied by the projects funded.
Two changes here are worth mentioning: For the first
time, the report presents research funding by the
Cancer League as a whole – that is, the projects and
funds of the Swiss Cancer League along with those
of the cantonal cancer leagues. Also new as of 2009
is that the Foundation Cancer Research Switzerland
is responsible for distributing the funds to the researchers.
Oncosuisse now focuses on strategy and