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Q:

will this continue to he the case?

Lasker:

I don't know. I'm hoping it will up to a point because if you'd be able to tell by a sufficient refinement of image whether a tumor is benign or malignant, it would be a tremendous advantage, wouldn't it?

Q:

Certainly. It would spare people some opperations.

Lasker:

It would reassure people even if they had to have operations. But I think this is going to go on, and it's also going to be helpful in diagnoses of cardio-vascular diseases It is already, but greater refinements are going to make more improvements in the diagnosis of cardio-vasclar disease.

Then we gave an award to Dr. Guillemen and Dr. Schally, who developed In other words, it's a development of the hypothalms. It's a hormone of the hypothalmus. Then we exploring the hypothalnaus. It's a gland of the body that triggers the pituitary and that has mainly were explored by these two men, who are bitter enemies. They hate each other.

Q:

How do they work together?

Lasker:

They don't work together. They did at one time and the don't how and are very hostile to each other.





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