THE WAR AGAINST CANCER

Can the war against cancer ever be won by modern medicine? Cancer research expenditure increases every year but the incidence of cancer and mortality continues to rise. Before the “war on cancer” was launched in 1971 by the US President Richard Nixon, billions of dollars had been spent on cancer research to no avail. With the declaration of the “war on cancer,” leading scientists who would embark on the research promised the US Congress a…