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Q:

At your house?

Lasker:

At my house. This was a good conference, but none of them were really dramatic enough or showed on charts or with enough emphasis the advances in bone cancer or in breast cancer. The doctors are afraid of each other and of the jealousy of each other to wake a sufficiently clear point. The result is that many people who are interested, including the chairman of the board of the Cancer Institute, Dr. Rhoads, has only just recently found out that you could do something about the prevention of the recurrence of breast cancer. He heard it for the first time in June of this year, not really having heard of it before. Isn't that amazing?

Q:

People who are skilled in communication...

Lasker:

But they are not. Doctors are not skilled in communication.

Now, in the field of family planning, population -- the outstanding person nationally or internationally was General William Draper.

Q:

Our representatives to the United Nations.

Lasker:

I had tried to be of help to him in '74, and we had given a luncheon in his honor in relation to the conference on population in Bucharest that was instituted by the UN. He unfortunately died during the winter, which was a terrible loss to the population





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