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Good recently moved from Minnesota to New York to become director of the largest privately operated cancer-research operation in the country. As the new president and director of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and director of research at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, he will continue his work in immunology, aiming toward understanding and controlling cancer. Those who are familiar with his ingenuity and energy predict that he will ultimately achieve his goal...
...years later, Burnet and Dr. Lewis Thomas, who has just been appointed president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, suggested a relationship between the immune system and cancerous growth. They postulated that in addition to protecting the body from invaders, the immune system has the duty to police cell growth and prevent the survival and replication of abnormal or "outlaw" cells...
...work best against small, localized cancers; surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are still the preferred methods for dealing with large or widespread malignancies. But even when these methods are used, immunotherapy may still be necessary to cope with residual cancers. Says Dr. Lloyd Old, vice president and associate director of Sloan-Kettering Institute: "What we can do well right now is eliminate massive amounts of cells. But getting rid of 90% of a cancer, even 99%, isn't enough; if there's one cell left, it can produce millions more cells. Immunotherapy offers a way of getting at these residual cancers...
Good's accomplishments have made him a folk hero at home in Minnesota. He hopes to be equally productive at the Sloan-Kettering Institute, where he has already made administrative changes and, as one associate puts it, is "stirring up the reservation." He is also expanding the scope of research at S.K.I., and has taken over an entire floor that he plans to staff with the best immunology researchers he can find at the institute or woo away from other hospitals and universities. The lab, he says, will study just about everything immunological ?the immunodeficiency diseases that he calls...
...need," says Good, "is a workable system by which we can determine what is normal immunologically, a yardstick by which we can measure and evaluate immune response." To arrive at that system, Good plans to run tests on every patient, employee and staff physician at S.K.I, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, recording the various blood components, allergic reactions and response to common disease agents...