There's a good post summarizing the status of the battle against cancer on the ENMD thread.
Message 15076441
Excerpts:
"Twenty nine years ago today, on December 23, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared the "War on Cancer" when he signed the National Cancer Act, expanding the mission of the National Cancer Institute and releasing major resources for the new National Cancer Program......
"WE SHALL CONQUER CANCER IN 20 YEARS!" (Richard Nixon)
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"National Cancer Institute researchers have shown that rates of non- Hodgkin's lymphoma, kidney, brain, thyroid, bone marrow, liver and testes cancer have more than doubled in the general population since the last half of the past century."
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"The United States spends about five times more per patient on chemotherapy than the United Kingdom, but survival for most common cancers does not differ."
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"Did you know that...The U.S. Government spent more on Desert Storm in six months than it has spent funding cancer research in the last 30 years?"
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"About 563,800 Americans died in 1999 from cancer, the second leading cause of death by disease. ... If a Titanic were to sink every day for five straight years, killing 1,500 passengers each time, wouldn't we sit up and take notice? ... To put things into perspective in Amercia, since May of 1998, over 1,250,000 men, women, and children have died from cancer. Enough to fill 833 Titanics or 2,500 747s."
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In this season of giving, let's not forget charities that fight this dreadful disease.
Best wishes,
I2 |
