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...children. Awards were given to Dr. Denis Burkitt of Britain's Medical Research Council, who first identified the tumor, and Dr. Joseph Burchenal of Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who recognized its potential as a target for chemotherapy. Another recipient was Dr. John Ziegler of NCI who has achieved disease-free survival for up to ten years in 67% of more than 150 patients treated at the Uganda Cancer Institute. Dr. V. Anomah Ngu, of the Center of Health Sciences, Federal Republic of Cameroun, also has patients who have survived ten years thanks to chemotherapy...
HODGKIN'S DISEASE is a cancer originating in the lymphatic system. Formerly, most patients with advanced Hodgkin's disease lived less than two years. Drs. Paul Carbone and Vincent DeVita of NCI have kept 70% of their patients alive for at least five years; Frei has achieved an 80% remission rate in patients with the disease. Dr. Isaac Djerassi of Mercy Catholic Medical Center in Darby, Pa., has found ways to overcome some of the problems inherent in chemotherapy, which can produce toxic reactions, by developing a technique for transfusing platelets (clotting agents) and disease-fighting white blood...
...physicians and researchers gathered in Los Angeles last week for the seventh National Cancer Conference sponsored by the American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute, the NCI reported new figures showing that chances of surviving cancer have improved significantly in the past 30 years. In 1940 only one out of five patients found to have cancer could be expected to live for five years. Now about a third will survive at least that long, and the rate is improving rapidly...
...NCI report attributes such reductions in mortality to several factors...
...case of overkill. Most subcommittee members resented what they considered an attempt at intimidation; one argued that the money spent on the ads could have been better spent on cancer research. All the subcommittee members ultimately went along with Rogers and cleared his bill, which increases the number of NCI research centers from eight to 23, speeds up the process of awarding study grants, and takes backers of the Administration's bill off the hook by creating a presidential watchdog commission to oversee an expanded NCI. Scheduled to reach the floor of the House later this month, the bill...