Word: nci
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...briefing for National Cancer Institute staffers in Washington last week, Director Arthur Upton reviewed the NCI's progress and goals, and then quietly dropped a bombshell: the institute plans a $250,000 test on humans of the controversial cancer drug Laetrile...
...words of sympathy for a President caught up in politics and went about their job of urging the nation to give up cigarettes. But when the new report on "tolerable" cigarette smoking hit the front pages, both an alarmed Surgeon General and Gori's boss at NCI went public to repudiate Gori and make sure everyone understood that cigarette smoking was still not considered safe. The federal antismoking campaign thus rolled on, expecting an extra $10 million from Carter's new budget...
...that distracts cancer patients from possibly effective therapy. Even if it were accompanied by a caveat, an FDA stamp of approval for Laetrile would draw still more cancer patients away from conventional treatment-with disastrous consequences. Says Dr. Vincent DeVita, director of cancer treatment at the National Cancer Institute (NCI): "Hardly a day goes by now that I don't hear of a case of a patient dying after leaving accepted treatment and taking Laetrile...
Still, the growing grass-roots movement may soon force the Government's hand. NCI'S acting director. Dr. Guy Newell, has already indicated that his agency may, in spite of the absence of any positive animal data - a prerequisite in the case of all other purported anticancer drugs - undertake a clinical test of Lae trile on humans, something it has steadfastly refused...
...Harvard professor turned down an offer from the Carter administration last month to be a contender for the office of director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI...