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On the threshold of a dream
Author(s) -
Marks James S.,
Orleans C. Tracy,
Gerlach Karen K.
Publication year - 2006
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.21991
Subject(s) - medicine , dream , cancer , gerontology , economic growth , psychology , psychotherapist , economics
With steadily declining mortality rates, progress in the 35‐year War on Cancer in the U.S. deserves celebration as a tangible and hard‐won achievement. The tremendous progress and increasing opportunity outlined in this issue of Cancer by Byers et al. thrust the cancer community and its far‐reaching objectives into the middle of the national dialogue on how to fix the health care system so that everyone can benefit from what has been learned.