Money Won't Solve Everything.

Senator Edward Kennedy introduced a bill, S.34, on January 25, 1971, which provided for a separate National Cancer Authority, distinct from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It was to receive $1.2 billion over a three-year period. The purpose of the legislation was to "launch a nationwide program for the conquest of cancer." The pressure to create a separate Cancer Authority outside the NIH comes in part from such sources. The NIH was dividing the diminishing loot among too many claimants.