Is an Internet directory of cancer centers, programs and clinics in the United States. We have a more than 40-year history of designing and conducting clinical trials that have changed the way breast cancer is treated, and, more recently, prevented. We were also the first to demonstrate that adjuvant therapy could alter the natural history of breast cancer, increasing survival rates, and the first to demonstrate on a large scale the preventive effects of the drug tamoxifen in breast cancer. A cancer script is the script people follow when they are diagnosed with cancer, the way they believe to be the best way, or the only way, to deal with cancer. In the most common cancer script there are only two ways to face the disease, to fight or to be passive, and fighting is assumed to be better.
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Cancer's fighter script is borrowed from medicine, whose script is a battle against death and disease. The SEER Program of the National Cancer Institute is the most authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States. Information on more than 2.5 million cancer cases is included in the SEER database, and approximately 160,000 new cases are accessioned each year within the SEER catchment areas. SEER data, publications, and resources are available free of charge. You provide credible information, community, and services.