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Disparities in Cancer Care

Two days before Christmas in 1971, then president Richard M. Nixon signed the National Cancer Act. It declared "the conquest of cancer a national crusade." Among other steps, the Act authorized the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to create a three-member National Cancer Panel, which would report directly to the president on the progress of this "crusade."

More recently, in 2004, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) convened a group of leading experts to study an issue tightly bound to any effort to minimize cancer's impact on America—inequalities in Americans' access to cancer prevention and treatment . . . [Click for More]