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first, 40 years ago this past friday, december 23rd, president richard nixon declared the war on cancer. i hope that in the years ahead, that we may look back on this day and this action as being the most significant action taken during this administration. president nixon had big expectations and we have come a long way since 1971. still, even today, cancer will strike down 1 in 4 americans. there are smart people who may tell you up front that we may be losing the war on cancer. but this morning i want to talk about our successes rather than failures. at the end of world war ii, doctors had very little to do with cancer, you could cut it out, blast it with radiation, but there wasn t good medicine. then in one day in 1947, a 2-year-old boy came through the door at children s hospital in boston. robert sadler had leukemia. it had broken through his bones. his twin brother watched the ambulance take him away. back then, the disease meant death in a matter of w ....

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