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n s a a P 40 LEW'IME$ ItQSR7 -. 1ks x~N'~ -7.t.rcW4-i;'~' ';{ e ~ c~:~ ~' i` ~.It is this type of outright dishonesty - -- dtngs ;and other [herapies, often funded 4~ t ts; and statistical iegerdemain that supports e count ~ACS s power and 7~ ! by NCf. taughed it depends on what p th '4 ~. K ry's system of orthodox cancer t a R Iyou mean by 'respundmg.' You heve to s-+ trealment and leads the public to believe affluence e~epend on Its 'distingu"ish between cure and a very tem ~ tha[ the medical estaF,tishment is well on ~ beiny reC'JgIll2ef3 8s tf]e.' sOle porary response 1 would hesitate to say - s# the way to controlling cancei _ ,. t;~ ~ anythinZ like that ~ aH"Toda one out of three cancer dfs euser of cai7Cer ~x~~~~ ( .., i ~ra c4 ,4 Y• Pa P For some rare cancers such as ', : 5 ner.ts is being saved- And it could be one "• ~ f,, ehildhood leukemia, Hodgktn's diseas wr, informa~on an3 ho e .m two, if the disease were detected early i~, ;Witm's tumor, chemotherapy can ,n i, r,~.', and treated piomptly.".This, the central -- ---- crease survival time, but most often only hope-myth 'wr.jured up by ACS/NCI,' tion from what most scienists agree is an at the risk of devastating sida .Hects, m "--~has been retold since 195ti. Adding a final urgcnt need to pursue innovative, radi- ciuding an increased chance of develop- . f{ourish this summer, Dr. Lee Clark cally new ideas in cancer research. Criti- ing a second cancer after a decade. (ACS President and NCI's senior cizing NCI's research program, 1975 No- Important questions about tho value "=scientific member of the President's bel Prize winner Dr. Howard Temin of conventional treatment for certain Cancer Pane1) predicted the advance to claimed there is too much emphasis "on cancers have been raised by recent stud- , "nrte in twn" would come "within the directed researci that assu:nes we know ies. One, reported in Lancn, the British aettfiveyears. how cancer is caused and can be medicaljournal,inDecember19i5,con- 8ui we have yet to see even a ont• cured . . and that puts large sums of ctudes that "no immediate treatment •~ ~ in-three survival rate that has been oased money in a few places to pursue only a proved a significantly better policy for ~~ t-~onafairrepresentationoftheAmer.can few ideas." -:--~_~-, patients'survivalandforthequalityof ;,poputation. Non-whites• for example „zj;.: $ut the people who carefully er.g,-remaining life"for inoperable carcinoma _ -- ~,6 ~whose cancer death rate is higher-8tree neered the National Cancer Act and of the bronchus ; and another, which times higher for males-t.1an that of NCI's increasingiy large sums have too Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, ACS Vice N ,~.;wfiites, were virtually left out of the one- much at stake persanaliy and profession- President for Epidemiology and Stans ' ~ in-three calculations, while those pa- ally to allow competition with their few tics, described to me, involved "a re tients included (only 3 percent of the ideasandassumotions. markable number of patients diagnosed to rountry's total) were treated at large pri ~--?ake chemotherapy-an ACS fa- with breast cancer in whom io evidence vate and univenity hospitals where pre vorite. Not only does ACS co-own the of breast cancer could be found later ~; -`aumably they were receiving the best patent for one of the most frequently even though they received absolutely no po ssible care and trearnent. used cancer drv . . gs-S-fluaroucaril-but treatmen[ ~ i tt is rarely mentioned in ACSIYCI Mary fasker• a friend of Dr. Sidney Fak educational material that :'saved" refers Farber, who pioneered the first chemo- ~~gfl nq q++~~q~ +t }['e '~~~E'f_",,.''~~ only tp,.being alive fl,e'Xtan--aft.r the therapeutic drugs in the late forties, has t1~7G[t ~)tt•IiUL U7t11~3L1~ r:•tir;"~ time cancer was diagnosed, oot to long- 'pushed NCf for 1 , years to funda masive "' ;tc8oasting the "largest repository for t{ f!•,; is ierm survival as most people would ia• - impractical "Chemotherapy Screening unproven methods information in the ~ fer ;~' yta~ t-''`}4y=;Progr.tm.'• designed to test at random 'world," ACS's Co;rtmittee on Unprovee ~j Even wtthout sll~these qualisome 50.M0 chemicals a year for their ' Methods of Cancer Management works ~~.tions•_ the fact that "one in three" sur- ••c/fectiveness against cancer. Thoagh ed•'.)fand-in-hand with local and state medt -..`". ~_.. vives today is no triumph. ?eopie diag- -independent commission described the cat societies• and with the American . f+ ' ~ rosed as having cancer in 19411-52 al- project as "utterlY wit%ntt scientific Medical Association's (AMA) Commit- a6~'h1 ready had a 32 percent deance of surviv- merit" as early as 1965, NCI's first budg- `tee on Quackery, forming a network of .Z zfj~ [ng; and "the commonest cancen," ae n , under the National Cancer Act (1972) 'vigilantes prepared to pounce on anyone ~ cording to Dr. Donald Gould, ,Yzw, tripled fvnds for the screeniag proje-t. '''who promotes a cancer therapy that runs ';=:.%Scieetisr editor, "are as resistant to ,:fa response to an ACSINCI "educa- ~~against their substantial prejudices and w w i treatment as they were 40 or 50 years tinnat" claim that "airout one•third of all profits : • ago." , rt, : ':r.'_:yeancers are responding to chemahera- ..~.'-Indtscriminate in its " w•tck at .+Still, orthodox treatment methods py•" Dr. Marvin Zelen of the Eastern tacks," the ACS committ e-wtioae ve peddled to the public and to Con- Coeperative Oncology Group. a group ` memben• half laymen• half profession- 'g ess as "known curea." diver[in atten- which s gr g pecializes in clinical trials of ats, include r:presantatives trom the i ~.` d . t a ~ ytyi~tt =f°f A' Y~' o ' y(Toy ?. f~ t ) :xl !.4 iY y ;r. N. !. ® ® 0