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' ° Scienfiist Sees 5 Keys .:,f.F.Si}Nrf traced togentsin our environfinhthhll5dddifl a-g weer cemcaae ~evence thatdoesnot.support ment... ~.to foodstuffs carry risk of ~his.positlon:' But,.admitting it'could be "a bringg aboutt permanentarrestIWashington, vicee presidentt of `~ wild guess," Dr. Heller said he ,oft some fewkinds ofhumanf ithe Tbbacco InstStute, adde vd Eltlnksperhsps15to 20 per~I..canoers.. that Dr. Shimktn [qnores the ". eent of eancers might bei 'Dhe problem of determin- I"slzable and growing researeh Research Foreseen SePuernber l' r 1960 Big Strides in Cancer that Dr. Shltrfkln hadd made f„ sitnilar 'charges before-"eve T ~n . nneso , a three today- but they could individual's surroundings. perhaps do better than 20 per - BJ PETER V®\-DERPOEL Much ofthis progress he ex- And "if a researcher, stum-Staff Wrtter ` pectsto be in the environ- blesonto, for example„a virus If you contract cancer, your'mental area - detectingand as a cause of a cotnmon cancer ehances of living are one in eliminating.eaneer causesin an I such ass leukemta,, we would I beo i t" D H nenwo. cent,r„eller ventures. "With our pres- Like manyother speakers d experts attending a three- Eliminat 1 ng em~ itonmental To Cancer Cause, Cure ',. B7 ALTON BLAHESLEE ' ' Ueeeleeed Prea aofrnee wrltler ' MINNEAPOLIS. Sept. 14.-Our ways of life hold keys to saving maqy thousands of humans from cancer, a prominent :..acientlstpredlcts.. - ".- Caneer tolls mlght wei]!be cut 10 to 15 per cent wlthin J 10 years by finding ttiese keys, says Dr. John R, Heller, president of Memorial-Sloan B:ettering : -- Cancer Center, New York. Dr. Heller llsted flve malor f[elds for study of possible ` ',eancer causing agents tn tha -:; ~. American envlronmentc . Unnecessary exposure to afr pollu, radiation: smoking ~ , . ~ , . tion,some of the chemicals ad-~. Suchresearch is admlttedly' duced b 20000 live ear a m I y s ~ y ,, •:ded to foodstuffs, and aomedlffiouit, he.said. Dr Shlmkln told the confer- ~ ihil hdled I idt" Vitt d l M ..cemcasannnusry,accnes agans cartcero of 2,00o~ doctora and and manufacturing, f na4appear rightnow.to be enee Just ifnlt . >. It is generallY considered,around the corner, he eaid, but Instituta and AmericanCaneer hf.s own lifetime there couldagree with him:' ` BocletY: eome one tothree drugs which.. EdwardF. Ragland of ~ I ttat onlyl~ percent of cancers he hass hopes they may be A apokesmanfor the tobacco i d n uatry quicklyY counter 1ed can beblamed onn environ- found: Vaccines depend on, "mental causes, he said In an flnding speciflc causes„such as lt f rth N hi h b a- v uses w c can ,i M interview at the ou e used to tional~Cancer Conference spon- stimulate protectlhe antlbodies.though other scientlstsins the soredby the National Caneer ... Dr: Heller safd thatt withtnNatfonal Cancer Institutedla- ;~ en t knowledge, alentness ot the ~ y`rational Cancereanfer- causes of canc_. - industriaiagainst medical prafes- ence at the university, Drr pollution, SR~r...j,+r, radfation ~ ;Heller ha7sresearch~advancesland innd'au mf~es4 and pre- tancer, sion andaware onlvi certain klnds of - -servati~~ es o fo ex m V fr i b I „ a p n many r e- onts; sat- utt tempers Dr: Heller emphasizes that esson~the part tackfng the disease b o timism with for tio i p e cau ee n tt dtd' ,oeorsrs need to know much of th'e publie; we b ~ ic couid be sav~ng; 50 per cent'of` our I ins egfns, or preti ent e medicine... h Ii h k S~ cancerpa- "~h pe- , ;. Dr, Heller ident of Sloan- ', Kettering MemorialCancerll On another fron4- treat, ing canrer.onen its contract- ed-Dr.,Hellernexpects drugs SD: PAUL DISPATCH St Paul Mi t ' more about cancerand its life history: "Wejus.t don't know what~ happensif we lett it alone." to play a big part•I The nation can~ use much }nore money for cancer re- search, he said. "We'hee been 'toolingpp' for quite some time, andwe can useincreasing money. in~a legitimate, orderly fash'ion better than we could' five yean ago." . Att e.veryturn„Dr. Heller says, researoheratindthat "wdd center, New~York, said at the~i~In my 1i[e~~time, one,.~two SQ pe.r cent.goalt ay ~ "Assuming reasonableprog•singly,.in combination or with Dr, John R., Heller, for12ress;"'D4 Heller makes an in- X-rays-will be major factors years director o6 the Natiomal., formed'guess-that the countryin b'ringtng about permanent Cancer institute; th'inksthis.~ will decreasee its cancer eases remission of certain cancers,"' eountry, willsee'"awfully ex-; 10 to 20 per centt in the next he predicts.. citi.ng work in cancer during' deeade byredueing environ- But+.he. adds, remission is.not. thenext. decade." I mental causes ofcancer,. ~ing, dut arrestingdiuase,. y or three chemicali agents - Univers.ityof~,lfinnesotatod eauaiag cancer poses. "a gen- uine.dilemma," he added. Thi! Is particularly ttue Sor chemi's caLs whiGh produce cancers only occasionally in some spe- ,„ eies of anlmals, and under cer- in tain conditiona: The controversy over effects 9fsmoking on cancer suscep- tlbllity waa raised' again tn the conference keynote speeech by i Dr, bAchael ~ B... Shlalkin, chief Dr. Heller, former head of the I of biometry for the National ~National Cancer Institute atl Cancer Institute. Bethesda,. Md.,, foresees big,. uAmerlcans were to qult galns from research to flnd; ymoking tobacco: at leaat !n and'then eliminate aueh causes„ or ftnding waya of protecting cigarette form, the mortallty humans against them: from lung cancer could be re- in e t s t erates of cure In cancer, - reported four years n;o to have advanced from -5to 33 per cent-I! "perhaps creeping up,. In emall fracttons,' toward th'e and ditugs seemto lie effective ineed mueh.more informatlon.':•