GENERAL RESOURCES

Cancer Facts and Figures, 2008. American Cancer Society. (PDF, 900 KB)
A summary of current scientific information about cancer in the United States, including historic and projected incidence and deaths, trends, relative survival, disparities, and risk factors.

100 Years of Advances Against Cancer
This series of fact sheets chronicles the remarkable history of cancer control and prevention--from the discovery in 1903 that radium is effective for treating tumors, to the HPV vaccine in 2006. A great source of trivia for your next social hour. [In what publication was the list of cancer's warning signs first published?  Ladies' Home Journal, 1913.]

 

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