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The annual report of the Scientific Director of T.I.R.C'. drew additional notice. This feature was reported used by 331 radio and television stations. Taped and filmed comments by Dr. Little were also distributed and reportedly used on more than 100 outlets. PROGRESS IN CANCER APRIL 1962 Vol. 8, No.4 (2=O5) A noted cancer scientist reports -- and we quote -- there is "real hope for eventual solutions to the challenges of cancer, heart diseases, and' other constitutional ailrnents." Dr. Clarence Cook Little, a cancer researcher for 53 years, and scientific director of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, listed several promising, advances: He says several scales are being developed to test the cancer-producing ability of various substances. This may make it possible to determine which substances can contribute to cancer in animals... and should help uncover ways to offset them. Scientists have allso discovered~, Dr. Little says, that they can produce lung cancer in animals by exposing them to viruses along with certain chemicals. Neither the viruses nor the chemicals alone produced lung cancer in experiments. Continuing tests with tobacco smoke indicate that it is much, too feeble to play a role in the development of lung cancer, says Dr. Little. More investigation is needed to see if tobacco might play an indirect role. Dr. Little reports that scientists are getting a "more accurate perspective of the whole picture of lung cancer causation" from studies of the effects of many things, including chronic and acute lung infections, air pollution, genetic factors, stress, hormones, viruses, diet and others. Dr. Little, who is a former president of the Universities of Michigan and Maine, and served for 16 years as managing director of what is now the American Cancer Society, su^ns it up this way: "While the answers we seek are sti11! not within our grasp, we no.: have a far better u3iderstanding of the questions." C