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-,:~F Scienf'ist Sees 5 Keys rf traced to in our environfinhthhilsddd agents-g weer cemcaae I evidence thatdoesnot.support ment... to foodstuffs carry risk af 1 hSs.positlon:' . But,.admitting it:could be "a bringg aboutt permanentarrestIWashington, vicee presidentt of `~ wild guess:" Dr. Heller said he ,of. some few kinds ofhumam ithe Tbbacco InstStute, adde vd tEtlnksperhaps15to 20 per~:..canoers.. that Dr. Shimktn Ignores the ', cent of cancers might bei The problem of determin- I"slzable and growing research Research Foreseen September 14, 1960 Big Strides in Cancer that Dr. Shltrtk[n had. made (~ similar 'charges before-"eve r 1n . nneso , a three today - but they could individual's surroundings• perhaps do better than 20 per - By PETER VA\-DERPOEL ,Much of this progress he ex- And "if a researcherstum-Staff Writer ` pectsto be in the environ- bles onto, for examplq,a virvs If you contract cancer, your'mental area - detecting and as a cause of a common cancer ehances of living are one in eliminating.eancercausesin an ~ such ass leukemia,, we would be o i t" H nenwo. cent, Dr.eller ventures. With our pres- Like many other speakers d experts attending a three- Eliminat 1 nz em~ itonmental To Cancer Cause,-Cure ',. By ALTON BLAKESLEE ' ' Usceleeed rrea sofenp Writer - ' MINNEAPOLIS. Sept, 14.-Our ways of life hold keys to . saving maqythousatids of humans from cancer,, a prominent :..scientistpredlcts.. - ".- Cancer tolls mlght well!be cut 10 to 15 per cent within J 10 years by finding these keys, says Dr. John R, Heller„president of Memorial-Sloan B:ettering : -- Cancer Center, New York. °' Dr. Heller listed five malor fields for study of possible ` ',eancer causing agents in the -:; American envtronmentc . Unnecessary exposure to air pollu, radiatton: smoking ~ , . , , I tion,some of the chemicals ad-~I . Such~ research Is admittedly' duced b 20000 ]Sve ear a m I y s y ! ,, •:ded to foodstuffs, and someJ i dlffiouit, he.said. Dr Shlmkln told the confer-, hdled i idt" Vi d l M . chemicalsannnusry,accnes against canceroenee of 2,000~ doctors and and manufacturing. f ~ na4 appear rightnowt to be Just iinlt . generally considered,around the corner, he ea1d, but >. It Is Institute and AmericanCaneer his own lifetime there could, agree with him:' ` BocletY: come one to,three drugs which~.. Edward F. Ragland of ~ I ttat only L per cent of cancers he hass hopes they may be A apokesmen for the tobacco i d n ustry quickly counter 1ed can be blamed onn environ- found, Vaccines depend on, mental causes, he said in an finding specific causes„such as lt f rthN hi h b a- v uses w c ean ,i M fnterview at the ou e used to tfonal' Cancer Conference spon- stimulate protectlve antibodies.though other scientlstsins the sored by the National Cancer ... Dr. Heller said thatt withtm National Cancer Instituted1a- ;~ en t kreowledge. alertness ot the ~ y`rational Cancerconfer- causes of canc-. - industriaiagainst medical profes- ence at the university, Dr1 pollution, SR•r...i,+n_ radiation ~tancer, ;Heller ha7sresearch~advancesland innd'au,I~es. and pre- sion and~ aware only certain kinds of - servati~es o fo ex m V fr i b - I „ a p n many r e- onts, sat- utt tempers esson~the part . Dr. Heaer emplnasizes that tacking thedisease b o timism with for tio h i i p e cau e n t dtd' . .oeorss need to know much of the public, we ~, i b • ic couid be saving; 50 per centof` owr I ins eglns, or preti ent e medicine... h A h k Sra cancer pa- " ~h pe- , ;. Dr. Hetler ident of Sloan- ~', Kettering MemorialCancerll On another fron4- treat- ing ranrer.onen its contract- ed-Dr.,Heller expects drugs ST: PAUL DISPATCH St Paul t•ii t ' more about cancer and its life history: "Wejus.t don't know what happens if we lett it alone." to play a big part•I'Phe nation can~ use much }nore money for cancer re- search, he said. "We'tree been 'tooling.up' for quite some time, and we can use increasing moneyy in~a legitimate, orderly fashion better than we rould' five years ago." . Att e.v e r yturn„ Dr. Heller says, researchers t'ind ~ that "wdl center, New~ York, said at the~i ~ In my 1i[e~~time, one,. two pe.r cent.goal• 50 ay . ~ "Assuming reasonable prog• singly,, in combination or with Dr. John R., Heller, for12' ress:"'Dr, Heller makes an in- X-rays-will be major factors years director of~the National., f0R°ed'~guess-that the country in bringing about permanent Cancer institute, th'inksthis.s will decreasee its cancer cases remission of certain cancers,"' eountry, willsee'"awfully ex-; 10 to 20 per centt in the next he predicts.. citi.ng workin cancer during' decade byredueing environ- But+.hee adds, remission is.nots thenexte decade." I mental causes ofcancer,. ~ing: dut arrestingdiuase,. or three chemicali agents - Univers.ityof,lfinnesotatod Cau3ing cancer poses. "a gen- ulne dilemma," he added. Tlti1 is particularly tYue for chemi'" caLs whiGh produce cancers only occasionally In some spe- ,cies of anlmals, and under cer- n tain conditions. The controversy over effects I f 9fsmoktng on cancer suscep- tlbllity was raised' again in the conference keynote speeech by i Dr. Michael I B... Shfalkin, chief Dr. Heller, former head of the I of biometry for the National ~Natlonal Cancer Institute atI Cancer Institute. Bethesda,. Md.,, foresees big,. uAmerlcans were to quit gains from research to- flnd; ymoking tobacco: at least !n I and'then eliminate aueh causes, , or finding ways of protecting !cigarette form, the mortality humans against them: from lung cancer could be re- in e t s t eratee of cure In cancer, - reported four years ago to have advanced from -5to 33 per cent-I! "perhaps creeping up,. 1n emall fracttons,'• toward the and ditugs seemto lie effective ineed mucti.more informatlon.':•