Cancer is the most feared of all dis- eases. People immediately associate cancer with dying. It affects two of every five Americans. The number of new cancer cases has been increasing over the past nine decades. According to the U.S Bureau of the Census, 47 people out of every 100,00 died of cancer in 1900, making it the sixth leading cause of death. Today, 170 people out of every 100,000 will die of cancer, ranking it second.

In 1971, the United States declared war on cancer with the following statement from President Nixon " The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease." In that year, 337,000 people died of cancer and about $250 million were spent on cancer research. Since then, billions of dollars have been invested in cancer research. Approximately $120 billion are spent on cancer each year. Each month, it seems, new therapies are trumpeted some show promise, others fizzle quickly.

Despite the enormous effort to combat cancer, the number of new cases of nearly every form of cancer has increased annually over the last century. Still worse, from 1930 to the present despite surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and all of our fancy medical technology life spans for almost every form of adult cancer (except lung and cervix) have remained the same which means there has been no significant progress in the treatment of adult cancers, including breast cancer See Table 1, p.84.