Sylvie Beljanski interviewed on A Quest For Well Being
The “War on Cancer” was declared on December 23, 1971. On that day, President Richard Nixon signed into law the National Cancer Act, which allocated $1.5 billion for cancer research over the course of three years. Although the legislation never mentioned the word “war,” Nixon declared: “The same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease.”
