It refers neither to a single cure nor to a single cut of meat.
But there is unlikely to be a single cure for cancer.
But chief executive Harpal Kumar said there would never be a single cure for cancer.
For a start, trying to develop a single "cure for cancer" would be like trying to develop a single cure for Aids, depression, the flu or a broken leg.
But more than 40 years later, few experts talk of a single cure for the 200 known types of cancer.
While we can treat the symptoms of a cold, we cannot find a single cure as there are so many types of virus and they mutate rapidly.
Those hoping for a single "cure" were disappointed because cancer turned out to be not a single problem but a complex arrangement of inter-related problems on which we continue to make incremental progress.
Many clinical and experimental studies are ongoing, but we need to acknowledge that a single cure for Alzheimer's disease is unlikely to be found and that the approach to drug development for this disorder needs to be reconsidered.
In 1971, the nation declared a war on cancer, implying that cancer was one disease for which a single cure could be found if we only did enough research.
The latest government-led initiative has echoes of former President Richard Nixon's unsuccessful "War on Cancer" in the 1970s, since when scientists have discovered that cancer is hundreds of different diseases rather than one single disorder, making the notion of a single cure outdated.
