Cancer Type |
Number of Grants** |
Funded Amount ($) |
Specific Amount ($) |
| Brain Cancer | 28 | 17,934,500 | 9,291,575 |
| Breast Cancer | 153 | 102,914,200 | 71,483,945 |
| Cervical Cancer | 15 | 11,778,450 | 4,499,425 |
| Colon and Rectal Cancer | 67 | 50,823,250 | 26,226,663 |
| Head and Neck Cancer | 27 | 19,304,000 | 9,016,100 |
| Kidney Cancer | 13 | 8,612,500 | 5,326,150 |
| Leukemia/Leukaemia | 53 | 34,108,000 | 20,750,000 |
| Liver Cancer | 21 | 16,273,500 | 10,473,700 |
| Lung Cancer | 74 | 50,319,750 | 27,229,575 |
| Lymphoma | 31 | 18,027,000 | 7,167,260 |
| Ovarian Cancer | 29 | 21,336,500 | 10,954,670 |
| Pancreatic Cancer | 36 | 23,283,750 | 12,370,260 |
| Prostate Cancer | 53 | 41,650,102 | 25,285,120 |
| Skin Cancer | 63 | 39,032,450 | 24,188,545 |
| Thyroid Cancer | 2 | 1,589,000 | 1,589,000 |
| Other Cancer Types | 155 | 103,669,400 | 43,633,690 |
| Applies to all cancers≠ | 192 | 92,963,850 | 74,776,975 |
| Grand Total | 630 | 384,262,652 |
Areas of Cancer Research |
Number of Grants |
Funded Amount ($) |
| Childhood Cancer | 43 | 26,427,000 |
| Disparities | 65 | 62,477,952 |
| Environmental Factors | 28 | 20,358,500 |
≠ Applies to all cancers: The grant projects included here have relevance to cancer in general but have not been designated to any specific cancer type.
** Total number of grants does not equal the sum of the numbers shown in the number of grants column. In many cases, a grant project may have a focus that is linked to more than one type of cancer because of similarities between cancers. Thus, an individual grant project may be listed in more than one cancer type.
Glossary Funded Amount - The total value of funding that was awarded to a single, or a group of, research or training grants for a specific type of cancer (or area of cancer research) and includes funding for some grant projects that may be minimally related to that type of cancer (or area of cancer research).
Specific Amount - The portion of the total funding that was awarded to a single research project for a specific type of cancer. The specific amount is calculated by multiplying the total funded amount by the percent relevance for the type of cancer in question.
For example, a project with a funded amount of $120,000 that's been coded with 50% relevance to the cancer type "lung" has specific funding of $60,000 (120,000 x 0.50) for "lung."
Total Specific Amount for a Particular Type of Cancer - The total specific funding for a particular type of cancer in the entire research and training program is the sum of the specific funding for each type of cancer within all research and training grant projects.