Cancer Research Progress

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Thirty Years of Intense War on Cancer

Marked Advances Toward Still Distant Goal

Thirty years ago the Congress, by authorizing creation of the National Cancer Institute, launched the nation on an intensive, multi-pronged attack on the most dread of all diseases. Since 1937, several billion dollars of tax funds and voluntary contributions have been devoted to efforts to eradicate cancer. Still further expansion of government support for biomedical research, the mainstay of the war on all degenerative diseases, is called for in the administration's proposed budget for the fiscal year 1968. And President Johnson disclosed in a special message to Congress on Feb. 28 that he had ordered that a new task force be created in the National Cancer Institute of the U. S. Public Health ...

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