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CAM at the NCI
Updated: 10/31/11

Expenditures

In FY 2008, NCI invested an estimated $121,564,207 for 444 intramural and extramural research projects relevant to CAM.

Below are several figures that explain the expenditures in greater detail.

Breakdown by research type:

NCI Cam funding by research type 2008

Breakdown by CAM modality:

nutritional theraputicspharmacologic CAM spending

mindbody interventions manipulative therapies

alternative medical exercise therapies

spiritualmisc spending

energy therapies

Breakdown by nutritional theraputics category:

NCI cam spending by nutritional theraputics

NCI CAM Research Projects breakdown by cancer type:

Bladder $980,937
Brain $174,424
Breast $16,774,338
Cervical $1,364,913
Childhood Cancer $238,184
Colorectal $15,337,660
Esophageal $871,553
Gastric $1,731,659
Head and Neck $2,884,084
Hematologic $1,285,793
Kidney $35,556
Liver $579,474
Lung $13,500,476
Multiple Types $27,973,073
Ovarian $322,882
Pancreatic $3,807,957
Prostate $25,723,501
Skin-Non-Melanoma and Melanoma $7,561,560
Small Intestines $76,503
Total $121,264,507