Impending Shortage of Cytotechnologists

Abstract

At the very time when the Ad- ministration is pressing for an in- crease of $100 million in Federal expenditures for the conquest of cancer, a shortage of cytotechnologists, who are valuable in re- search as well as control, may occur.When Congress passed the Partnership for Health Act and section 314E became effective in June 1970, cancer was among the categorical diseases that lost