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Confronted with demands for specific advice on drinking behavior in light of the new findings, doctors begin hedging. Said Peter Greenwald, director of NCI's cancer-prevention-and-control division: "We don't have the information to be making a public recommendation at this point." Garfinkel agreed, "We need a lot more data." One problem is that these and earlier studies simply associate drinking with cancer; they do not show a cause-and- effect relationship or offer an explanation of the mechanisms involved...
...from the pituitary gland. Said Robert Hiatt of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland, who reported an alcohol-breast cancer link in 1984: "So far, this is an epidemiological finding that has been repeated, leading to concern. As yet, there is no linkup with biology." Indeed, even NCI's Greenwald conceded that alcohol may be less important than other risk factors...
...focused on changes between 1950 and 1982 in the five- year survival rates for victims of twelve types of cancer. Advances in detection and treatment, they conceded, had resulted in improvements in these survival rates (measured from the time of diagnosis), except for stomach cancer. Yet they criticized the NCI's reliance on these rates as proof of gains against cancer, noting that some types of the disease, such as breast and prostate cancers, can progress for ten or 15 years before proving fatal. Also, the GAO observed, survival rates reveal nothing about the life expectancy or quality of life...
...NCI Director Vincent DeVita Jr. called the report "offensive," stressing that the institute's assessments take into account mortality and incidence rates as well as five-year survival rates. David Korn, dean of the Stanford medical school and chairman of the National Cancer Advisory Board, agreed. He denounced the report as a "shabby polemic...
...widely known as the spokesman for the team of doctors that performed colon surgery on Ronald Reagan in 1985. At a nationally televised press conference he began his remarks with the chilling statement "The President has cancer." But Rosenberg also created news 16 months ago, when he and his NCI team published their initial reports about IL-2 therapy on humans, which the press generally heralded as a cancer "breakthrough...