Cancer Research

Bailar: Focus Should Be On Prevention After 25 Years of "Failed" Therapy Research

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 9th, 1997

Despite 25 years of intense research and thousands of clinical trials of promising new cancer therapies, there has been only scattered progress in treatment since President Richard Nixon declared the "War on Cancer" in December 1971, say two researchers from the University of Chicago.

In an earlier assessment, published in 1986, John C. Bailar III, M.D., Ph.D., then at Harvard University, declared that "years of intense effort focused largely on improving treatment must be judged a qualified failure."

In 1997, with 12 more years of data and experience, "we see little reason to change that conclusion," reports Bailar, now professor and chair of...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-06-09)

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