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methatrexate, and the work of Dr. Roy Hertz and Dr. Li has been crucial in this. It is a rare form of cancer but still it was a very malignant form. Dr. Farber and his group have shown that in W tumor in children, even with metastheses to the lung, you can get a reversal and five-year survivals in more than 50 percent, possibly 80 percent of the children, if they are treated with small amounts of X-ray and actinomycin. Actinomycin was a drug that was developed by Dr. Wachsman, the discoverer of streptomycin. And Dr. Algernon Reese has shown that the terrible tumor of the eye in children, called retinoblastoma, can be treated with TEM and small amounts of X-rays, and the eyes are sometimes saved and the lives are saved. And he has five-year cures and survivals of children which were totally unheard of before.

Now, this is the beginning of chemotherapy of cancer. It's not in the big causes of death from cancer or lung, breast, intestines or stomach, unfortunately, but it shows that substantial progress can be made against three forms of cancer by the use of drugs. And these efforts have been largely financed and certainly influenced by the efforts of the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society.

Dr. Reese got some of his funds from Mr. Charles R, and I'm not sure about what other funds he got, but Farber got funds from the National Cancer Institute, and Roy Hertz works in the National Cancer Institute. Farber's funds are from