The Cancer Information Service Research Consortium: A Brief Retrospective and a Preview of the Future,

The Cancer Information Service Research Consortium (CISRC) was initially funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1993 to examine seven key research questions. In this paper, the final results pertaining to these seven research questions are briefly reviewed, as well as several key lessons that have been learned from this unique research collaboration. Also described is the second generation of CISRC research that was recently funded by the NCI and is now in its first year of development. The results obtained from the first generation of research should provide the Cancer Information Service, as well as other organizations and agencies, with several viable programmatic options for the future.