NEW YORK--To celebrate its 100th anniversary, the American Cancer Society has led an effort to anticipate how the world might be in 2015 and how that might affect the control of cancer.
NEW YORK--To celebrate its 100th anniversary, the American CancerSociety has led an effort to anticipate how the world might bein 2015 and how that might affect the control of cancer.
Helene G. Brown reported that four scenarios were developed. "Theseare not predictions but represent the construction of likely plotsbased on available information and knowledge of the possibilities,"she said at the Third World Congress of Psycho-Oncology.
Ms. Brown, director of community applications of research, JonssonComprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA, described each scenario andits effect on age-adjusted cancer mortality.
"Everybody wants great strides to happen, but realisticallyeverybody thinks that stone soup is more likely to occur,"Ms. Brown concluded. She emphasized that these scenarios are onlylearning tools that tell their story about the future in severalways. "The future is uncertain, but without research andfunding, there is no future."
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