We Fought Cancer…And Cancer Won.
After billions spent on research and decades of hit-or-miss treatments, it's time to rethink the war on cancer.
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Four decades into the war on cancer, conquest is not on the horizon. As a somber statement on the NCI Web site says, "the biology of the more than 100 types of cancers has proven far more complex than imagined at that time." Oncologists resort to a gallows-humor explanation: "One tumor," says Otis Brawley of the ACS, "is smarter than 100 brilliant cancer scientists."
