The Nation - News from Feb. 1, 1985
The National Cancer Institute announced a program that it said could save thousands of lives a year by enabling doctors to use their home or office computers to obtain information instantly on the latest cancer treatments and where to find them. The system, known as PDQ, for physician data query, also will tell physicians where clinical studies are under way for patients who have cancers with no known treatments. Information in it will be updated monthly by 72 cancer experts from around the nation.
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