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Keynote speech: Progress with a purpose
Author(s) -
von Eschenbach Andrew C.
Publication year - 2005
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/cncr.21513
Subject(s) - medicine , conquest , cancer , work (physics) , psychological intervention , psychiatry , history , mechanical engineering , ancient history , engineering
The U.S. invigorated a campaign against cancer when the National Cancer Act of 1971 was signed into law. At that time, the nation pledged as a country to make the conquest of cancer a national cause. Much progress has been made in the more than 30 years since the National Cancer Act, and researchers have much work to do. To achieve the goal of eliminating suffering and death due to cancer, clinicians must define an integrated strategy of multiple interventions along the pathways that are capable of preventing, detecting, eliminating, and controlling cancers.