Word: rauscher
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Until that day comes, and indeed until and if the new tests of interferon demonstrate that it is truly effective, medical experts are warning cancer victims and their relatives against undue optimism Says A.C.S. official and former National Cancer Institute Director Frank J Rauscher Jr.: "Interferon is just one of thousands of substances being tested for antitumor activity. The only way to find out if interferon is any good is to buy the material and get the research started That's where we are today...
...tens of thousands of American cancer sufferers. The substance is smuggled into the U.S., mainly from Mexico. No reputable studies have found evidence to support claims that the drug cures or prevents cancer (TIME, May 23). Its use is opposed by the American Medical Association, and Dr. Frank Rauscher, American Cancer Society senior vice president for research, insists: "We know doggone well that Laetrile doesn't work." But backers put their faith in tales of miracle apricot-pit cures and refuse to be dissuaded. Many are impatient with the pace of cancer research and suspect that doctors...
...Rauscher, director of the National Cancer Institute: "I wish it worked, but, in fact, amygdalin is simply not active against cancer...
...victims-and outlines a number of approaches for the accomplishment of each. It also would concentrate the nationwide anti-cancer effort in the NCI, and leaves little doubt about where the emphasis will be placed. "Direct application to treat people has to be the first priority," says Dr. Frank Rauscher Jr., head of NCI. "This could mean that as funds get tighter, basic research could be deprived of adequate funds. I can't see any other way." Outside the NCI, the National Cancer Plan has won few friends in the medical world. A committee from the National Academy...
...Allen Spraggett, the Canadian journalist who brought Pike and Ford together for the TV séance, has published his own account of the incident. In Arthur Ford: The Man Who Talked with the Dead (New American Library; $7.95), a biography written with William V. Rauscher, a close friend of Ford's and his literary legatee, Spraggett admits that he is a believer in Ford's psychic powers but says that Ford had the canny habit of cramming for many of his séances...