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A 12 page research paper that discusses cancer technology and treatment 30 years ago compared with today. The fight against cancer has come a long way in the last several decades. By examining where cancer technology and treatment was 30 years ago, compared to the present, it is easy to see the rapid rate of change and what this has meant in terms of saved lives with improved treatment options. In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a national war on cancer, as he signed the National Cancer Act, which established a federally funded program to search for a cure (DeNoon). Looking at advances since that time shows that there has been a great deal of progress toward reaching this goal. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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present, it is easy to see the rapid rate of change and what this has meant in terms of saved lives with improved treatment options. In 1971, President Richard Nixon
declared a national war on cancer, as he signed the National Cancer Act, which established a federally funded program to search for a cure (DeNoon). Looking at advances since that
time shows that there has been a great deal of progress toward reaching this goal. Milestones in cancer research It was thirty years ago that breast cancer researchers Bernard
Fisher and Umberto Veronesi first proposed that a simple mastectomy for breast cancer, that is, removing only the breast itself, was just as effective as a radical mastectomy, which involves
removing the chest muscles as well (DeNoon). In 1972, scientists first pioneered bone marrow transplantation as a means of treating cancer (DeNoon). In 1974, V. Craig Jordan shows that the
drug tamoxifen prevents breast cancer in rats by binding to the estrogen receptor (DeNoon). In 1975, researchers develop technology that leads to the development of a monoclonal antibody, capable of
enhances the immune system (DeNoon). This initial discovery has lead to the development of several promising cancer drugs in the late 1990s and early 2000s (DeNoon). In 1979, researchers identify
the first cancer-causing gene--an oncogene--which is shown to plan a role in human bladder cancer; more than 50 oncogenes have been identified today (DeNoon). Technologies developed in the 1970s
include recombinant DNA techniques that were developed for cloning genes for study, and hybridoma technology was developed for the production and monoclonal antibodies (After the National Cancer Act). Methods
were also developed in the 1970s for sequencing DNA fragments (After the National Cancer Act). Interleukin-2 was developed as a treatment for cancer in 1976 and the first human testing
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