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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(2):114-117; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.2.114
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 2, 114-117, January 20, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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What Ever Happened To . . .?: A 10-year Retrospective

Nancy J. Nelson

One way to measure the progress of cancer research is to begin at some past point in time and see if things have changed. 1988 is the year that the News section of Journal of the National Cancer Institute began. What has happened in the 10 intervening years to the stories first reported back then?

Some issues don't seem to go away. In May 1988, the News reported that the U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, M.D., after releasing a U.S. Public Health Service report on American nutritional habits, encouraged Americans to reduce their consumption of cholesterol, fat, and alcohol, and to increase the amount of fiber in their diets.



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  		Dr. C. Everett Koop

 
Likewise, in this year's Oct. 1 issue of Cancer, Susan M. Krebs-Smith, Ph.D., of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Surveillance Research Program in Bethesda, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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