E181 Benson Science Building
Provo Utah 84602
(801) 422-3913
cancer_research@byu.edu

Welcome to the Brigham Young University Cancer Research Center home page. The BYUCRC is an independent organization with members coming from the Colleges of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health and Human Performance, and Engineering and Technology. A primary goal of the CRC is to provide a rigorous research training program for students. More than 100 undergraduate and graduate students annually pursue various aspects of cancer research with the members of the BYUCRC. Our ultimate goal is to find a cure through research and education.

We have adopted as our mission statement this charge, given by President Harold B. Lee on November 11, 1971, at the inauguration of BYU's then new President, Dallin H. Oaks:

"We would hope that you would give to the students of this institution the vision of the possibility that the Eyring Science Center could make a significant contribution to the discovery of a cure for cancer -- that treacherous disease which took the life of the great scholar, Dr. Carl Eyring, after whom that building was named."

Consider these cancer facts and figures:*

• More than one million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed this year.

• Cancer kills more children age one to fourteen in the U.S. than any other disease.

• About 76 million Americans now living will eventually have cancer.

• More than 500,000 Americans will die of cancer this year.

• Approximately one in every nine women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer.

*SOURCE: THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY

Join the fight and send your tax-deductible contributions to:

BYU Cancer Research Center
E181 BNSN
Provo, UT 84602
801-422-3913

See menu on the left for more information concerning specific aspects of the Cancer Research Center 

Special thanks to the

College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the College of Life Sciences