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...with brown hair and twinkling eyes, he sings folk songs, plays the guitar, performs card tricks and is fascinated by the Old West. But Teddy is no ordinary youngster. His world consists largely of a small (8% ft. by 10 ft.), near-sterile chamber at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md., where he has lived in isolation for the past 31/2 years...
Teddy's living quarters-one of eight "laminar air flow rooms" set up by the NCI for infection-prone patients -is kept free of potentially harmful viruses and bacteria by a system that forces clean air into the room through filters and out through an open doorway; germs cannot make their way past the outward-flowing air. Only people dressed in specially designed sterile outfits are allowed into the room...
Reduced Trauma. Most doctors are likely to welcome the NCI's findings on L-PAM and make wider use of the drug. But, until ways other than surgery are developed to determine whether cancers have spread to the lymph nodes, few are likely to abandon radical mastectomy for the simpler operation...
...plan lists a series of goals -from prevention of cancer to rehabilitation of its victims-and outlines a number of approaches for the accomplishment of each. It also would concentrate the nationwide anti-cancer effort in the NCI, and leaves little doubt about where the emphasis will be placed. "Direct application to treat people has to be the first priority," says Dr. Frank Rauscher Jr., head of NCI. "This could mean that as funds get tighter, basic research could be deprived of adequate funds. I can't see any other way." Outside the NCI, the National Cancer Plan...
...overcome this deficit, Good urges the NCI to expand its budget for basic research, while continuing to apply current knowledge whenever possible. He also advocates abandoning the plan to limit NCI support to scientists working in cancer-related fields. "If we're going to make a thrust on cancer," says Good, "it must be in addition to what is being done in other areas. If we try to solve the cancer problem while ignoring others, we're not going to solve anything...