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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Albert J. Meyer, who is currently undergoing treatment for leukemia at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has contracted a serious bacterial infection, and a blood drive is underway to help him combat this recent complication...
...letter to President Reagan, Allan M. Maxam of the Medical School's Dana Farber Cancer Institute explained that the films "are about destructive agents-hydrogen bombs and acidic rain-that could kill trillions of living organism. We assert that the Canadian films are statements of this profound concern and as such can not be propaganda...
Harvard's recently renamed Dana-Farber Institute typifies he tubular vision of most cancer research centers, where emphasis is on the clinical, no the environmental causes of cancer. The foundation devotes little to none of its $20 million in annual funds to the investigation of physical or chemical carcinogens. Rather, it divides its research into four broad categories: virology, genetics, immunology, and treatment...
...DANA-FARBER INSTITUTE is not alone in its failure to investigate potentially hazardous chemicals in our midst. The government conducts a little over half the research done in this country into the causes of cancer via the National Cancer Institute (NCI). And the NCI, which spent over $1 billion researching he causes of cancer in 1981, devotes a miniscule amount to investigation of potential carcinogens. Both the EPA and Food and Drug Administration refer suspected carcinogens to the NCI but the NCI tests only 26 suspected chemical carcinogens per year, according to a spokesman for the National Institute of Environmental...
...Dana Foundation made a good investment: Sidney Farber is clearly one of the best centers in the country," says Dr. John R. Durant, president of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Pennsylvania...