War_On_Cancer

War On Cancer In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon declared the “War on Cancer.” Despite the huge amount of funds dedicated to the research, little progress in actually finding the cure for cancer has been made. Since President Nixon launched the nation's war on cancer [more than] 25 years ago, [over] $25 billion has been spent fighting the disease. While scientists' understanding of the biology of cancer has greatly expanded, cancer incidence and mortality rates of the majority of the cancers have continued to climb. Lack of success to cure the illness is due to the complexity of the disease in addition to the money in the politics. Despite the fact that a cure hasn’t been found, there are no grounds to be able to say that significant progress has not been made. The scientific community has made leaps and bounds in the direction of finding the cure. Cancer is feared like no other illness. It is not racist or judgmental; its victims have no distinct characteristics. It strikes the young, the old, the healthy, the weak, and in virtually any bodily tissue. The only real cure today is prevention, and ignorance cancer, research, advances, scientists, cure, gene, disease, been, national, cancers, genes, cells, one, government, first, death, scientific, rates, people, funding, treatment, researchers, progress, new, much, environmental, cell, cause, war, treatments, status, smoking, president, nixon, made