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Nixon's War on Cancer: Why it mattered
Some view it as a boondoggle — but it helped set a critical course that is still playing out, a half century later
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September 21, 2016
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D. Gary Gilliland
Robert Day
E Donnall Thomas
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National Cancer Act of 1971
Cancer etiology - prevention - outcomes
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