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Q:

In those two instances, did they use this combination?

Lasker:

Mrs. Ford is or was on L-PAM. Personally I think they should have considered the combination of drugs, but it would have made her lose hair and she might be unable to go about for three days every three weeks for maybe a year; and as far as I know, she isn't taking the three drugs.

Then the other advance is in cancer of the bone. Did I tell you about that?

Q:

No.

Lasker:

Well, two years ago Teddy Kennedy's child had a bone cancer, and I had heard that in Boston at the Farther Cancer Center they were treating children with methotrexate and factor. And in about 12 children, maybe 10 survived without reoccurence after operation. Teddy's child was operated on, and the general attitude well, you take the leg off and then what more can you do? And that's what had happened with him. But within about six weeks I got in touch with him, and it seemed by chance so had Benno Schmidt, and we both said, “You must call a conference, because here and there are people who are using combinations of drugs that are showing an advance in the treatment of bone cancer that's very dramatic, and you should have a meeting of the people that are doing it and know about it.” I thought that I was doing it alone, but it later turned out that Benno





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