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Chemicals have made a substantial contribution to cancer therapy during the past 20 years. In 1954, one of every four patients afflicted with cancer could expect to have his survival extended for 5 years or more by effective therapy. Today, the proportion of patients so “cured” has risen to one in three and is still climbing, even if slowly. A substantial fraction of this nearly 30 percent increase in the cure rate, which amounts to 55,000 additional lives saved each year, can be attributed to advances in cancer chemotherapy.
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Maugh, T.H., Marx, J.L. (1975). Chemotherapy. In: Seeds of Destruction. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8562-2_11
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