National Cancer Centers mission is two-fold: funding research and providing education on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. We are dedicated to the task of seeking out and providing financial support to researchers undertaking thorough, innovative and promising studies on topics relating to conquering cancer. For 70 years, the National Cancer Center has been committed to funding basic research: the scientific investigation into how the bodys immune system sees and responds to cancer when it initially develops, research that seeks to reveal how and why cancer cells are resistant to different treatments.