PITFALLS AND PROGRESS IN CANCER CONTROL*

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Cancer research has become a major enterprise as a result of public determination to carry over to the problems of peace the progress made by the determined and extensive scientific effort of the recent war. Federal and State funds have been appropriated and private philanthropic organizations created to achieve, by the scientific method, cancer control in man. Sufficient time has now elapsed to permit an evaluation of some of the pitfalls encountered and of the progress made.

The first problem was how to organize the effort. Whereas all concerned were satisfied that the cancer control so ardently desired would be