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...briefing for National Cancer Institute staffers in Washington last week, Director Arthur Upton reviewed the NCI's progress and goals, and then quietly dropped a bombshell: the institute plans a $250,000 test on humans of the controversial cancer drug Laetrile...
While the decision spread joy through the ranks of the highly vocal Laetrile supporters, who for 15 years have been urging the NCI to test the drug, Upton's decision was apparently due more to political pressure than to scientific evidence. Laetrile promoters claim that some 70,000 cancer victims are using the apricot-pit-based substance in the U.S., despite a federal ban on interstate shipments, and have succeeded in recent years in getting 17 states to legalize its use. They scored another success recently when the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that terminally ill cancer patients could...
Under ordinary circumstances such scanty evidence would have made little impact upon the NCI. Even in cancer victims who have had no treatment, tumors occasionally shrink and even disappear-possibly because the victims' immune systems become reinvigorated. Thus, in the two submitted cases, Upton says, "there was no way we could conclude confidently that remission resulted from Laetrile." Furthermore, in most laboratory tests, Laetrile has had no effect on animals with cancer-the reason that the NCI has given in the past for refusing to begin testing of humans. Still, the increasing political pressure apparently had its effect...
Stan Strickland with Aisha Kalilah and Sundance, Afro-Asian jazz--at Lulu's, 3 Appleton St., Boston, Sunday at 9. Also at Webster School Courtyard, 15 Upton St., Cambridge, Saturday at 7:30, free...
...Regan a copy of "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair...