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Does bigger mean better? British perspectives on American cancer treatment and research, 1948

Toon, E.

Authors

E. Toon



Abstract

In the summer of 1948, a delegation representing the British Empire Cancer Campaign (BECC) toured North American cancer treatment and research facilities, and reported their observations back to their organization's executive board. This historical article contextualizes the British delegation's observations of US treatment and research, and discusses what the delegation made of the United States' new, "bigger" approaches to cancer surgery and chemotherapeutic research. I argue that the BECC delegation used their observations of US practice to reinforce a positive sense of British distinctiveness, thus reassuring themselves and their colleagues that Britain could still be a leader in the increasingly international field we now call oncology.

Citation

Toon, E. (2007). Does bigger mean better? British perspectives on American cancer treatment and research, 1948. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 25(36), 5831-5834. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2007.14.2448

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Dec 1, 2007
Deposit Date Jan 17, 2008
Journal Journal of Clinical Oncology
Print ISSN 0732-183X
Electronic ISSN 1527-7755
Publisher American Society of Clinical Oncology
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 25
Issue 36
Pages 5831-5834
DOI https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2007.14.2448
Publisher URL http://jco.ascopubs.org/