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Challenges of cancer control start with complex nature of cancers themselves. The burdens of cancers are broad and diverse. Cancer control efforts in the U.S are complex, involving more than a dozen federal agencies, 65 states and territories, Many nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies. The National Academies with support from the American Cancer Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Cancer Institute initiated a consensus study to examine cancer control efforts in the U.S and recommend a national strategy to reduce the incidence, morbidity, and mortality from cancer and to improve quality of life for cancer survivors.
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Guiding Cancer Control: A Path to Transformation
Consensus Study Report
·2019
Throughout history, perhaps no other disease has generated the level of social, scientific, and political discourse or has had the degree of cultural significance as cancer. A collective in the truest sense of the word, "cancer" is a clustering of different diseases that afflict individuals in diffe...
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