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Q:

What was your particular objective in seeing them?

Lasker:

Well, really to see what other cancer centers were doing. We know pretty well what's going on at M.D. Anderson and Memorial up to a point, and I wanted to see what a Southern, the Southern center was doing.

Q:

And were you very pleased?

Lasker:

Yes, it seemed to me a good beginning. It seemed very good.

Q:

Financed by the university?

Lasker:

Financed by the university and by the National Cancer Institute. Now, New York City, New York University Medical School also wants to be a comprehensive cancer center, and this is more complicated, because although they have appointed a head of a department of onchology that will be the head of the cancer center, their efforts are very scattered in the university, and they're not used to thinking of a real attack on a disease. Each department is doing its own thing, and I did get Dr. R. Lee Clark to come to visit here, to try to give them an idea of a comprehensive center. However, Dr. Clark said, “They didn't ask me what to do, so I didn't tell them.”

Isn't that funny?

In another situation in the cancer field, -- I've been on the National Cancer Advisory Board for two years and my appointment has run out. Mr. Benno Schmidt was anxious for me to be re-appointed, and I've not yet received any information about being re-appointed, although I went to the last meeting.





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