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With a greater awareness of the complexity of comprehensive care of a patient with cancer, a handful of well-intentioned young men and women fresh from their post-graduate medical stint abroad found it necessary to optimize the care of patients with cancer as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the national health picture, was rising to alarming proportions.

In 1968, the Central Tumor Registry of the Philippines confirmed these data and reported them before the international fora.