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Marston in the NCI.
Now, that will only last for a certain length of time.
Did that result in any hard feelings --
(crosstalk) -- I understand Baker has left for a cancer Research Laboratory which is largely supported by grants from the Cancer Institute. So that's that.
In the spring, when I got back from Europe, there was a chemotherapy conference supported by the Cancer Society and the Cancer Institute, which surprised the Cancer Society and the Institute very much by attracting over 2000 doctors. They'd never heard of such a thing. They expected 400 and those with difficulty. They found that people were tremendously interested in the subject.
How, it appears that acute leukemia, through a combination of drugs, can have an almost normal life expectancy in children who are properly treated and supported, that this is the same for Hodgkins' disease. Burkitt's tumor is curable, in a large number of cases. Wilm's tumor of course we've known is curable, in combination therapy and alone with X-ray. Choriocarcinous has been curable for a long time. Skin cancer is curable, evenalthough, vasal cell and? cell cancers of the skin are curable with 5FU, and Mycosis fungoides is a terrible systemic cancer that appears on the skin, and this seems to be -- a combination of, there seems to be therapy, for -- on the skin -- with cream, or the chemicals, that provides prolonged survival. In fact, the man who has done the largest number of cases has about 84 cases. It's a rare disease.
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