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General motors cancer research foundation awards. Charles F. Kettering Award. Stepwise progress in the treatment of disseminated cancers
Author(s) -
Skipper Howard E.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19830515)51:10<1773::aid-cncr2820511002>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - medicine , pace , wonder , cancer , intensive care medicine , medical physics , epistemology , philosophy , geodesy , geography
Remarkable progress has been made in curing a significant number of disseminated cancers, but at times the pace has seemed discouragingly slow. When I look back at both the successes and failures, and relate them to current concepts, I cannot help but wonder if the rate of future progress might be accelerated by application of basic tenets of the 40‐year‐old somatic mutation theory. By this I mean serious consideration of the implications of this theory in interpretation of available data and in the design of future therapeutic regimens.