ACS's Michael J. Thun on Cancer: Progress, But a Long Way to Go

摘要

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has been doing research in cancer epidemiology for over 60 years. Two huge cohort studies in particular-Cancer Prevention Study I, founded in 1959 with a million men and women in 29 states, and the CPS-II, launched in 1982, with 1.2 million Americans nationwide-have provided vitally important data, first confirming the link between smoking and lung cancer, and then helping to identify the major preventable causes of cancer in the United States.