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...cancer of the large bowel, 5-fluorouracil, the drug used on Speaker Sam Rayburn, offers "some control against malignancy" (TIME...
...Long to Prolong? A vigorous defense of what he called "aggressive or extraordinary means of treatment" to prolong life came from Dr. David A. Karnofsky, of Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, who was recently called in as a consultant on the treatment of House Speaker Sam Rayburn...
Such a drug is 5-fluorouracil (pronounced floo-or-oh-you're-a-sill), which Dallas physicians started giving, at the beginning of last week, to House Speaker Sam Rayburn. It is usually given only to selected patients who have already had surgery, radiation or both. Mister Sam's body was so riddled with spreading cancer (probably from a growth in the pancreas) that surgery was not possible. All the doctors could do at first was try to slow the march of the disease by chemical warfare against cancer cells...
...Ralph Tompsett. spokesman for Dallas' Baylor University Medical Center, said that Mister Sam tolerated the first big doses well, and had no nausea. A midweek bout of pneumonia interrupted the treatment, but Rayburn rallied quickly. After that he was given FUDR (5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine), which is a close chemical kin of 5-fluorouracil and works the same...
Thus, come next January, there is every chance that John McCormack-the "archbishop" of the cloakrooms-will take up the gavel handled with such dexterity for so long by Sam Rayburn...