Primary Recipient

JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE

Amount

$3,080,000.00

Award Date

9/29/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The overall purpose of this award is to fund the conduct of an in-progress research study. The purpose of the research study is to understand if surgery as a first treatment for Stage IV melanoma will lengthen the survival time compared to non-surgical (