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01-06-2019 | Prostate Cancer | Health Services Research and Global Oncology
Thirty Years of Counting Cancer Cases: The Collective Effort and Efficacy of the National Cancer Database
Authors:
Cary Jo R. Schlick, MD, David J. Bentrem, MD, MS
Published in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Issue 6/2019
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Excerpt
Our scientific community has mapped the human genome and is currently creating a Human Cell Atlas as a table of contents for every cell type in the human body.
1 Despite these advances, we still do not know with certainty the exact number of new cancer cases in the US each year, or the treatments each patient receives. Cancer surgeons, both independently and collectively through the American College of Surgeon’s Commission on Cancer, have been a driving force for large-scale cancer research efforts for over 100 years. Surgeons helped establish the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), which was founded by four surgeons in conjunction with five pathologists and two biochemists, as well as the American Cancer Society (ACS).
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