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Nature Reviews Cancer 1, 240-245 (December 2001) | doi:10.1038/35106102
Timeline: Comprehensive Cancer Centres and the war on cancer
David Nathan1 & Edward J. Benz, Jr1 About the authors
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Abstract
Comprehensive Cancer Centres are now recognized as an important weapon in the war on cancer, but they had to fight a very different battle to become accepted by the academic community. Why were these centres developed? How do they contribute to cancer research? Have they achieved the aims for which they were set up? And how should they be improved? It is important to answer these questions because we believe that cancer centres, though in need of improvement, are vital parts of our anticancer strategy.
Author affiliations
- David Nathan and Edward J. Benz, Jr are at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Correspondence to: David Nathan1 Email: David_Nathan@dfci.harvard.edu