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In 1937, Congress passed the National Cancer Institute Act, that authorized annual funding for cancer research. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) was formed in 1939 through the merger of the Office of Cancer Investigations at Harvard University and a pharmacology division at the National Institutes of Health.
Research produced by many scientists, including George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion, showed that cancer could be treated with chemical compounds. Cancer chemotherapy joined surgery and radiation as methods of treating cancer.
Research on the smoking-cancer link was initiated. Methods for the early diagnosis of cancer were pursued.
and heres the website!:
http://www.chemheritage.org/educationalservices/pharm/chemo/readings/timeline.htm
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