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...case of younger, totally symptom-free women, says Dr. Diane Fink, NCI's director of cancer control and rehabilitation, "the whole question will have to be looked at on an individual basis by the woman and her physician...
...allay fears of women alerted by press accounts of Breslow's criticism, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) hastily called a meeting in Bethesda, Md., last week. The directors of the screening program noted that mammography techniques have improved considerably since the H.I.P. study began 12½ years ago and that the radiation doses now used have been reduced to about a third of their old level. More important, they said that about two-thirds of the cases detected were in an early, curable stage-and only about half these cancers could have been detected without X rays. Said...
...mass mammography will continue is to be decided in the next weeks, after further study by the National Cancer Institute that will include a poll of women Government workers in Bethesda. Asked how he would advise a patient if he were still in medical practice, Dr. Guy R. Newell, NCI'S deputy director, said that he would have no hesitation recommending mammography for any woman over 50. "For a woman under 50," he added, "I would tell her that there is a risk attached to the X-ray technique, a small risk that she might get breast cancer...
...viruses and such chemicals as benzines have all been implicated. But whenever anyone survives, it is usually because his bone marrow suddenly-and mysteriously-begins working again. Teddy, who is the son of a prominent cancer specialist, Dr. Vincent DeVita Jr., director of the division of cancer treatment at NCI, has shown little improvement. His marrow remains almost as inactive today as it was on Sept. 15, 1972, when he first entered his cubicle...
Doctors' Strategy. Though aplastic anemia is not a form of cancer, doctors at NCI were particularly interested in Teddy's case for what it might teach them about treating patients with leukemia and other types of cancer who develop aplastic anemia because of their anticancer therapy. The strategy of Teddy's doctors was to give him transfusions of red blood cells and platelets to keep him alive, plus hormones and other drugs to stimulate bone-marrow activity (it is impractical to inject patients regularly with normal white cells both because white cells ordinarily live only a short...