War on Cancer

It was during Nixon's presidency in 1971 that Congress passed legislation (National Cancer Act) officially declaring a " War on Cancer "
Now over 30 years later and with billions of dollars spent annually on cancer research by the nations of the world, the annual death toll from cancer in the USA has increased from 300,000 to over 500,000, threatining to surpass heart disease as the number one killer. Current newspapers are still using the phrase "declaring a war on cancer "
In other arenas of war generals noting such statistics would have changed their battle plans.