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...Cancer is a human problem, not a puzzle provided for the pleasure of those temperamentally inclined to endless research. The entire question of how best to spend our resources needs to be debated because we are proceeding on blind faith that is unsupported by positive results after decades of research. Scientists continue to work with mice, knowing that what is learned seldom applies to humans. The cancer-research juggernaut has been rolling for way too long now, costing too many dollars and too many lives. LAWRENCE BLAKELY BARNES Bangkok...
...Cancer-Research Apology...
...education. After he died in 1933, my grandmother and the older children worked together to send the younger ones to college and professional schools. My dad, the baby of the family, graduated from Howard University's medical school. He went on to found the country's first black-run cancer-research center and publish ground- breaking studies about the disease's impact on black Americans. He died three years ago, leaving my mother, my three sisters (an interior designer, a veterinarian, a physician), my brother (a teacher) and me, the first black senior editor at TIME...
Last year the world of science was jolted by the public airing of four major cheating scandals, involving such prestigious institutions as Yale School of Medicine; Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard; and the Boston University Medical Center, where a threeyear, $1 million cancer-research project was tainted by falsified data. This year two University of California scientists have been reprimanded for a different ethical breach: violating federal guidelines governing genetic engineering. Some newspapers have begun talking about a scientific "crime wave," and though the term does not really apply, Congress took notice by holding hearings...
Good recently moved from Minnesota to New York to become director of the largest privately operated cancer-research operation in the country. As the new president and director of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and director of research at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, he will continue his work in immunology, aiming toward understanding and controlling cancer. Those who are familiar with his ingenuity and energy predict that he will ultimately achieve his goal...