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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2003 95(17):1266-1267; doi:10.1093/jnci/95.17.1266
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Statistics Offer Insights Into Progress Against Cancer

Katherine Arnold

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    "... It is the sense of the Congress that the conquest of cancer is a national crusade to be accomplished by 1976 ... ."

    —House Concurrent Resolution 526, March 4, 1970

In the early 1970s, many supporters of the National Cancer Act believed that the intense efforts outlined in the legislation could lead to a quick and finite end to the war on cancer. The provisions of the act proved fruitful, but in an unexpected way: Within a decade, researchers learned that cancer was more complex than had ever been imagined, and an end to that war was nowhere in sight.

Exactly how much progress has been made in that "conquest" depends on one’s perspective. The National Cancer Act provided the National Cancer Institute with a budget of $400 million in 1972; this year’s budget was $4.6 billion. Three decades ago, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery were a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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