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Anti-cancer forces have scored some gains, Dr. Heller notes: one cancer victim out of three is now saved, meaning cured or enabled to survive five years or more. Until recently, it was only one in four (see chart). But this advance could be upped by 50% merely by early detection and prompt treatment. About 75,000 cancer deaths every year are needless sacrifices to ignorance, apathy and fear...
...successfully treated get help, and to find ways of saving the half who are now doomed, NCI, a branch of the U.S. Public Health Service, is mounting history's most intensive campaign against a human illness. Its budget is skyrocketing: from $14 million when Dr. Heller took over in 1948 to $75 million in the fiscal year just ended, to a probable $100 million in the fiscal year just begun. It musters the efforts of 675 direct employees and thousands of independent researchers through grants and contracts. NCI's budget embraces almost 80% of all U.S. outlays...
...Hottest Thing. "Right now," says National Cancer Institute's Heller, "the hottest thing in cancer is research on viruses as possible causes." The Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Peyton Rous showed as long ago as 1911 (his findings were unpopular at the time) that one cancer (sarcoma) in chickens is caused and can be transmitted by a virus. Over the years, viruses were found to cause other tumors in birds and lower animals. But the gap between them and man seemed unbridgeable. Then the University of Minnesota's Dr. John J. Bittner showed that breast cancer in certain...
...National Institutes of Health. As so often happens in medical research, she did not get what she was looking for, but she got something better. Many of the mice she injected with Gross's "leukemia virus" got solid tumors, mainly in the parotid (salivary) glands. (Dr. Heller's theory: the Gross material had contained two viruses.) Dr. Stewart teamed with the NIH's Dr. Bernice E. Eddy to grow the solid-tumor virus in tissue cultures of monkey kidney cells (as polio virus is grown to make Salk vaccine...
...trials in man, and the rate is expected soon to hit 60,000 a year. First test for every compound involves at least 18 mice, and the consumption of mice is enormous-more than 2,000,000 last year. All must be of pure, inbred strains. One of Rod Heller's worries is that the supply of these precious mice may not keep pace with the demand...