Cairns J
Department of Cancer Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Cancer Cells. 1989 Sep;1(1):1-8.
The modern War against Cancer began in the United States in 1970 with the publication of the Yarborough Report, which set forth recommendations and delineated the "means and measures necessary to facilitate success in the treatment, cure and elimination of cancer--at the earliest possible date." If the architects of the Report had known more about the history of the conquest of diseases, we might by now have made a greater impact on the death rate from cancer. As many people have pointed out, the exercise was not that of mobilizing a vast amount of money and resources in order to apply an existing technology to a very limited goal--some special bombs for one or two airplanes and the support for a few astronauts. Quite the opposite, the problem required the development of a level of understanding and a technological base which would allow solutions to the cancer problem that are so inexpensive that they can be offered to 200 million people.
现代抗癌战争于1970年在美国拉开帷幕，随着亚伯勒报告的发表，该报告提出了建议，并勾勒出“为尽早成功治疗、治愈和消除癌症所需的手段和措施”。如果该报告的起草者对疾病征服史了解得更多，我们现在可能会对癌症死亡率产生更大的影响。正如许多人所指出的，这项工作并非是为了将现有技术应用于非常有限的目标而筹集大量资金和资源——为一两架飞机配备一些特殊炸弹并支持少数宇航员。恰恰相反，这个问题需要发展一种理解水平和技术基础，以便找到成本如此低廉以至于能够提供给2亿人的癌症解决方案。
