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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2003 95(20):1500-1501; doi:10.1093/jnci/95.20.1500
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Setting Goals for Cancer Mortality: Earlier Initiatives Offer Lessons for the Future

Katherine Arnold

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Earlier this year, National Cancer Institute director Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., issued a challenge goal to the cancer community to completely eliminate death and suffering from cancer by the year 2015. Although the director has yet to release specifics, two similar plans, one from NCI and one from the American Cancer Society, provide some insight into the effort and coordination that will be central to achieving a major effect on the nation’s cancer mortality rate.

NCI’s Goal for 2000

In 1986, the newly formed NCI Division of Cancer Prevention and Control published a monograph that defined an ambitious plan for an ambitious goal—a 25% to 50% reduction in the cancer mortality rate from the 1980 level by the year 2000. That number was calculated based on a series of estimates about how much particular risk factors, lifestyle factors, and cancer treatment factors contributed to the overall burden of cancer (see table, p. 1501. . . [Full Text of this Article]

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