Like all federal agencies the National Cancer Institute is subject to indirect political pressure through congressional and executive branch control of agency budgets. Such pressure can and does influence programmatic decisions. That had been the case with the Breast Cancer Demonstration Project of the 1970s (see this blog’s post for May 25, 2015, “Mammography’s Shadows: […]
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