title: The scope of the problem of primary tumor control.
abstract: The purposes of this article are (1) to point out several aspects of the magnitude and importance of the overall cancer problem, (2) to emphasize that the treatment of the primary lesion is far from being uniformly successful, and (3) to consider one component of a strategy to help assure an effective level of support for research at the laboratory and clinical level to promote improvement in the efficacy of primary treatment modalities.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiation Medicine, Boston, MA.
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Suit
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D012106:Research; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States