Outlook on Cancer

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Cancer and the Nation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Mortality and Morbidity

      • Rodney Smith

      Pages 3-5

   3. National Cancer Needs

      • Ronald W. Raven

      Pages 7-18

   4. National Cancer Screening

      • O. A. N. Husain

      Pages 19-55

   5. Industry and Cancer

      • M. D. Kipling

      Pages 57-70

   6. Changing Risks in the United Kingdom

      • Francis J. C. Roe

      Pages 71-85

   7. Progress Towards Effective Computer Systems in Medicine

      • Barry Barber

      Pages 87-102

   8. Cancer Education and Training — Medical

      • R. A. Sellwood

      Pages 103-107

   9. Cancer Education and Training — Nursing

      • Robert Tiffany

      Pages 109-117

   10. Cancer Education and Training — Medical Social Work

       • Joyce Bardsley

       Pages 119-125

   11. Cancer Education and Training — The Public

       • Ian Burn

       Pages 127-134

   12. Cancer Research in Britain

       • M. G. P. Stoker

       Pages 135-143

3. Cancer — Towards the Solution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Encouragement from Research on the Cancer of the Individual Patient

      • John R. Hobbs

      Pages 147-162

   3. Cancer — New Hope for Young and Old

      • Ronald W. Raven

      Pages 163-176

   4. Cancer Diagnosis and the E.M.I. Scanner

      • Richard Hayward

      Pages 177-187

   5. Health, Nutrition and Metabolism in Malignant Disease

      • Ariel F. Lant

      Pages 189-200

   6. Newer Chemicals for Cancer Treatment

      • Iain W. F. Hanham

      Pages 201-218

   7. Combination Treatment

      • Michael Baum

      Pages 219-232

When the 1975 and 1976 symposia of The Marie Curie Memorial Foundation took place at the Royal College of Surgeons of England it was IDY great privilege to say a few words at the opening of each of them. It is equally a privilege to contribute these few introductory words to the Volume recording these symposia and I believe that it would not be inappropriate to recall with minor mod­ ifications some of the thoughts that occurred to me when I opened the symposium in 1976, for they do reflect the spirit of determined optimism, but without complacency, that characterized the contributions on both of these two occasions. In common with many others I always looked forward, from year to year, to the Meetings and admired each time the spirit which was so apparent and so very much in tune with the general philosophy of a surgeon, the spirit which admits that to a doctor and all others who care for patients cancer is a grim and terrible foe but suggests that, rather than sitting down and grizzling about it, we should bestir ourselves, do our best, whatever the difficulties, and at least try to do a little better each year. The title of the symposium in 1976 was typically stimulating,-"Towards a Solution",- not, admittedly a study of the solution itself but a title emphasising that the position was not static - that it was mobile, that we ~ moving forward and we do know where we are going.

• Cancer Screening
• cancer
• cancer research
• cancer treatment
• care
• morbidity
• mortality
• patients
• philosophy
• screening
• social work

• Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, England

  Ronald W. Raven

• Royal Marsden Hospital, London, England

  Ronald W. Raven

• Institute of Cancer Research, London, England

  Ronald W. Raven

• Westminster Hospital, London, England

  Ronald W. Raven

Policies and ethics