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The use of war and battle metaphors in medicine has been documented back to the 1600s. [4] Over the 20th century, politicians have "declared war" on cancer, diabetes, AIDS, and obesity. [4] Military metaphors are not an exclusively Western phenomenon. Battle terms are also used in traditional Chinese medicine.
The "war on cancer" was launched in 1971 by President Richard Nixon to find a cure for cancer by increased research. The goals were to improve the understanding of cancer biology and to develop more effective cancer treatments , such as targeted drug therapies .
Cancer patient treatment and studies were restricted to individual physicians' practices until World War II when medical research centres discovered that there were large international differences in disease incidence. This insight drove national public health bodies to enable the compilation of health data across practices and hospitals, a ...
Exciting new technologies can help the U.S. government win the war that it declared 50 years ago—but the very same government may be hampering progress. America first declared war on cancer half ...
Thousands of cancer patients are being forced to seek life-saving medicines on the black market as the health system buckles after two years of war.
The U.S. surgeon general issues an alarming cancer warning, chess maestro Magnus Carlsen causes a stir, and South Korea's Jeju Airways suffers a tragedy.
The Next Generation Choices Foundation, also known as Less Cancer, is an American nonprofit organization (501(c)(3)) founded by Bill Couzens in 2004 to educate the public about cancer prevention through digital media and community-supported programming. Less Cancer seeks to make risk reduction and prevention vital parts of cancer cures. The ...
Last year the UK government signed an agreement with Germany-based BioNTech to launch clinical trials providing "personalised cancer treatments", aiming to reach 10,000 patients by 2030.