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50 years ago, Nixon gave the U.S. a 'Christmas gift.' It launched the war on cancer

Radiation was another treatment that researchers were refining at the time. Gordon Isaacs was the first patient treated with the linear accelerator (radiation therapy) for retinoblastoma. Gordon

The National Cancer Act became law 50 years ago. Cancer went from shameful taboo to one of the best-funded areas of medicine. Much of the credit for this transformation goes to one woman, Mary Lasker.

(Image credit: NIH/National Cancer Institute)


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