Comparative Incidence of Cancer in Three Regions in Texas

Abstract

The Texas cancer program began in 1944 as a new venture to be molded by experience and evaluated by results. Essentially, it embodies the stimulation and dissemination of conscious knowledge of the disease and its implications among the profession and the populace, and the supplementation of existing diagnostic and therapeutic resources. It has been tempered to a degree of sensitivity to existing needs, and has maintained its pliability for the accommodation of progressive change. The incorporation of corrections and the omission of proved inadequacies as determined by analysis of continuing studies have been the tools in the tempering process.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to Marco Fiorentino, Mary S. Johnson, Sue A. Allen, and the staff of epidemiology of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston, to the Common Research Computer Facility, and to USPHS Grant FR-00254 and NCI Grant CS-9299 for assistance in compiling this report.