 AFIP staff played key roles in the Tumor Node Metastasis (TNM) project of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC).The AFIP "Atlases of Tumor Pathology", published by the "American Registry of Pathology" were, and still are, monumental contributions to standards in diagnosis throughout the world.The Base Realignment and Closure proposal for 2005 included a realignment of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus that had as one element the disestablishment of AFIP with relocation of its "military relevant functions" to the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC), Bethesda, Maryland; Dover AFB, Delaware; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas.