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to get hold of the patients until they were so sick and the tumors were so far gone that, they wouldn't allow them to treat them until they were practically dying.

The odds for ohemotherapy -- you know, you may be able to do away with some cells, but there's a hugex body of cells in a person's body. You have to have an overwhelming amount of drugs to get any therapy.

Q:

So public awards act as a kind of a catalyst.

Lasker:

I think they do. I think they do. And I think it's fixing them so that the lag of surgeons is taking, you know, is being -- surgeons are being pushed to allow their patients to get chemotherapy earlier. I'm hoping that they can do away with surgery eventually. Of course, the surgeons subconsciously are worrying about that too. Because it would be considered a disaster in surgery if there was no need for cancers to be removed.

Q:

Do they look upon the use of the X-ray and that sort of thing in the same light?

Lasker:

X-ray doesn't work well enough to make it very threatening. They think about maybe we would get a very good drug, the way we've got good antibiotics, and they think about what -- the floors a that closed when there was no longer a need for them to make operations for mastoid.

Q:

Well, there's always something else comes along.





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