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Stamping out cancer
It is universally acknowledged that if cancer is to be controlled, prevention and down staging are essential. In the year 2000 about 10 million new cases were registered, while 6.3 million people died from cancer worldwide. Stamps are regarded as a very useful and educative tool in fighting cancer b...
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Nature Publishing Group
2003
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395291/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14676789 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601486 |
| Sumario: | It is universally acknowledged that if cancer is to be controlled, prevention and down staging are essential. In the year 2000 about 10 million new cases were registered, while 6.3 million people died from cancer worldwide. Stamps are regarded as a very useful and educative tool in fighting cancer by creating awareness and raising money for treatment and research. This year (2003) is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the issue of the first anticancer stamps in 1928, so an up-to-date review of the field of oncophilately is timely. |
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