The National Cancer Act of 1971: A seminal milestone in the fight against cancer

Affiliations

¹ Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
² American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

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Editorial

Suresh S Ramalingam et al. Cancer. 2021.

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. 2021 Dec 15;127(24):4532-4533.

doi: 10.1002/cncr.34001.

¹ Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
² American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

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Keywords: NCI; National Cancer Act; immunotherapy; precision therapy; tobacco control.

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