U.S. and German Cancer Information Services Develop Exchange Program

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The U.s. National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service (CIS) and the German Cancer Research Center's Cancer Information Service (KID) recently inaugurated an international program under which Annelies- Schleich Scholarships will support the exchange of staff from each service.

The first scholar, Regine Hagmann, M.D., a pediatrician and information specialist for the KID, in Heidelberg, spent April in the United States attending the CIS annual national meeting, spending a week at the CIS regional office at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami, and 2 weeks at CIS headquarters at Bethesda, Md.

Hagmann said she was “impressed with the customized and sensitive man ner in which callers are treated, with the quality assurance programs in place, and with the comprehensiveness of the program.”

Joann Ward, project director for the CIS regional office at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, will be the second scholar. During the summer, she expects to be with the KID and other European cancer information services.