La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation
Author | : William H. Fishman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Author | : William H. Fishman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Author | : La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation |
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1987* |
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Author | : Cancer Research Foundation |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Cancer |
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Cancer Research Foundation appeal.
Author | : Saul Wisnia |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780738510453 |
In May 1948, a nationwide radio audience first heard a twelve-year-old cancer patient known only as "Jimmy" as he was visited bedside by members of his beloved Boston Braves baseball team. An appeal for support followed, and since that moment, the Jimmy Fund has helped physician-scientists and staff at Boston's world-renowned Dana-Farber Cancer Institute provide the best cancer treatment available to children and adults today while developing cures for tomorrow. The Jimmy Fund of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute documents the history of "New England's favorite charity" from the 1940s and 1950s, when celebrities such as Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante drummed up support for institute founder Dr. Sidney Farber, to the fund's ongoing relationship with the Boston Red Sox and such baseball stars as Ted Williams. Readers will discover how these efforts-and the generations of New Englanders plunking coins into movie canisters or biking, golfing, skiing, and walking for the cause-have helped raise more than $200 million and save countless lives. The Jimmy Fund of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute captures each step of this remarkable journey, including the uplifting 1998 return of Einar "Jimmy" Gustafson to Dana-Farber after fifty years of anonymity and presumed death.
Author | : Joseph G. Fortner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1980* |
Genre | : Cancer |
ISBN | : 9780397571123 |
Author | : Imperial Cancer Research Fund (London) |
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Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Author | : Joseph G. Fortner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1979 |
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ISBN | : 9780397571116 |
Author | : Donald L. Trump |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-10-11 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1538144905 |
A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title An important history of the development of cancer centers of excellence and the revolution in cancer treatment. In the 1960s a coalition of concerned citizens, scientists and politicians joined forces to convince the federal government to focus its efforts on conquering cancer. The National Cancer Act of 1971 resulted and was signed into law on December 23, 1971 by President Nixon. The national “War on Cancer,” was declared with some leaders naively arguing that the disease would be conquered by the nation’s bicentennial—a mere five years in the future. Over the next five decades scientific discoveries demonstrated the great complexity of what had formerly been thought of as a single disease – with the advent of the genetic characterization of cancers, it is now recognized that there are almost an infinite number of cancers as defined by their many genetic mutations. The National Cancer Act established the infrastructure for the designation of centers by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and these centers have evolved into models of multidisciplinary, collaborative cancer research, treatment and prevention contributing to a reduction in cancer mortality and increase in quality of life and survival that has translated into more than 17 million cancer survivors in the United States in 2021. Centers of the Cancer Universe: A Half-Century of Progress Against Cancer tells the story of how cancer research was not front and center at most universities and research institutions before the National Cancer Act of 1971, and why many physicians were reluctant even to treat patients with cancer in the early 20th century. It follows the behind-the-scenes lobbying, resistance and negotiating that preceded signing the Act into law, and how the cancer centers of today came to fruition, and shaped how cancer research, clinical trials and treatment would be conducted.
Author | : World Cancer Research Fund |
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Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Cancer |
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Release | : 1936 |
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