(DOWNLOAD) "Why We are Still Losing the Winnable Cancer war (National Cancer Institute)" by The Humanist # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Why We are Still Losing the Winnable Cancer war (National Cancer Institute)
- Author : The Humanist
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 346 KB
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For more than thirty years we in the United States have been losing the war on cancer because we've used the wrong "generals" and the wrong strategies. The war has been and continues to be waged using screening, diagnosis, treatment, and related research with the primary goal of "damage control." By contrast, cancer prevention through the reduction of avoidable exposures to carcinogens in the totality of the environment remains a minimal priority. Ever since President Richard Nixon declared the "War on Cancer" in 1971 the country's primary generals--the federal National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the world's wealthiest nonprofit organization, the American Cancer Society (ACS)--have misled the nation. At first they promised a cure in time for the United States' 1976 bicentennial. Then in 1984, and again in 1986, the NCI declared that cancer mortality would be halved by 2000. In 1998 the NCI and ACS trumpeted that the nation had "turned the corner" in the war on cancer. Most recently, in 2003, NCI Director Andrew C. von Eschenbach pledged unrealistically to "eliminate the suffering and death from cancer by 2015." This pledge was shortly followed by a joint NCI and ACS claim that "considerable progress has been made in reducing the burden of cancer."