Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those involved with cancer research at Harvard, however, note that much more than Folkman's heavily bankrolled investigation of TAF is proceeding well in the Medical area. Increasingly, basic scientists--those not concerned with the clinical aspects of medicine--have responded to the flood of federal funding for study of the disease since the National Cancer Act of 1971. Anatomists, cell biologists, microbiologists, pathologists, biochemists, biophysicists, and immunologists are basic scientists who have come to the field only lately, as it earned respect beyond its clinical aspect as a horrible, and usually incurable, rotting disease...
...Dana Building that Dr. Emil Frei III has on his office wall closely resembles the actual building, which you can see out the window near the Children's Hospital, between Francis and Binney Streets in Boston. Frei is director of the Sidney Farber Center for the study of cancer, which will take up the new and angular black building that is a grim but gleaming testament to the gravity of the disease it was built...
...Dana building is funded largely by the National Cancer Institute, which just last week extended another $5 million to the Farber center for completion of the facilities. It is a Harvard teaching hospital and will have 100 beds for patients. The center is operating now on an outpatient basis, accepting about 25,000 visits a year from cancer patients...
Frei, professor of medicine, says that plans for the new center are proceeding "smashingly," and he gives equally glowing accounts of the progress cancer treatment is making and of the bold new field of "medical oncology." Frei is a lanky man with wisps of reddish hair and a sweeping white coat that somehow properly identifies him as a modern crusader, the image one senses he enjoys...
...clinical research has been most successful recently with a program for the treatment of bone cancer, osteogenic sarcoma, by chemotherapy, or the administration of chemicals. The field that Frei extols--medical oncology--is the study of tumors, and it is neither clinical nor pure research by his definition. Rather, Frei explains, it is a field only now "coming to fruition," involving scientist from almost all disciplines, and concerned especially with the effects of radiation therapy and chemotherapy on malignancies. In the Farber Center, Frei boasts, "No man can be an island; optimal evaluation and treatment for cancer involves the multiple...