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Whereas with the drug companies...

With the drug companies they don't care as long as they can sell it.

The element of profit...

Sure, the profit element is what makes the United States. (laughs) It's pathetic, isn't it?

Well, now, what about this Japanese doctor, Itakura? (at the city of Hope)

Well, Itakura has support from Japanese companies; and although we offered him support when we saw him in California this winter, he said he had enough support from Japanese companies. What in heaven's name he's doing, I don't know; but he's brilliant.

Where does he operate?

He works out of City of Hope in Los Angeles. He was the first person to clone any drug, and that was called somatostatin. It's a product of the hypothalamus. I must say he is brilliant.

That leads me to ask: is there anything more known about the efforts of the Japanese?