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...NCI bases its report on a new study that covered areas with a combined population of 20 million.* The survey is the most complete ever undertaken, and will analyze statistics from at least one more state and Puerto Rico before it is completed in 1973. Meanwhile, the preliminary findings, which include the projection that more than 600,000 new cancers will be diagnosed in the coming year, point to changing patterns. Items...
...Together with improved treatment methods for certain types of cancer, this attitude would account for the decrease of fatalities among women. But there is no explanation of why incidence of the disease is falling for one sex while rising for the other. Nor is there any evidence in the NCI survey to suggest that the difference between the races is based on genetics. Diet, environment, access to medical treatment, work patterns-all these may be involved. But Bruno stresses that much more research will be necessary before firm conclusions can be drawn from the cancer census...
...increase in that research. Congress has been debating new federal approaches to cancer since last winter. At that time Senator Edward Kennedy proposed the creation of a separate cancer agency outside the National Institutes of Health. The Nixon Administration responded with a plan of its own for an expanded NCI within NIH, then was forced into a surrender disguised as a compromise (TIME, July 5). The Senate subsequently passed a bill, 79 to 1, creating an ambitiously named Conquest of Cancer Agency. It would be administratively and financially independent of NIH, though nominally part of the agency. The theory behind...
...cancer budget in politics and divert too much money from science efforts to clinical approaches. This fall they picked up an ally in the person of Florida Congressman Paul Rogers, chairman of the House Public Health and Welfare Subcommittee. Rogers drafted a bill to expand cancer research in the NCI within the present NIH-NCI framework. Before the House bill could be reported out, however, some proponents of the Senate bill counterattacked. They bought space in 22 newspapers serving the home districts of each House subcommittee member. The ad supported an independent cancer agency and urged readers to write...
...Robert Huebner of the NCI speculates that cancer is caused by a noninfectious virus that is a normal part of every living thing. According to Huebner, the virus, which he has labeled the "C particle," is a part of everyone's genetic heritage, a tiny bit of RNA that is passed vertically from one generation to another and perhaps helps normal development by causing the cells of an embryo to grow. The C particle should become inactive as the fetus matures; if it fails to do so, the result is the rapid cell growth that characterizes cancer...