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SUBMITTER: Cantor D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3483769 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Medical history 20121001 4
This paper explores the origins of the Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Programme (DNCP) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and its fate under its first director, Gio Batta Gori. The DNCP is used to explore the emergence of federal support for research on diet, nutrition and cancer following the 1971 Cancer Act, the complex relations between cancer prevention and therapeutics in the NCI during the 1970s, the broader politics around diet, nutrition and cancer during that decade, and their relations ...[more]