On Aug. 5, 1977, the National Cancer Institute celebrated its 40th anniversary with a ceremony on the NIH campus. Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington who, as a member of the House of Representatives, introduced a bill to establish the NCI in 1937, sent a message stating: “Those one and a half million Americans who are alive todayﾗcured of cancerﾗare ample justification for all that we’ve appropriated over the last 40 years.”