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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• DeVita, Vincent T.

Titel

A personal note—40 years after the signing of the Cancer Act

Ist Teil von

• Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2011-12, Vol.8 (12), p.693-694

Ort / Verlag

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Cancer Act that was signed by President Nixon in December 1971 had a mandate “to support research and the application of the results of research, to reduce the incidence, morbidity and mortality from cancer.” It has succeeded in many of these aims, as this personal account testifies.