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Q:

Yes, they've been tossing this around for a number of years.

Lasker:

Yes. Now someone else -- I think in Israel -- has found a virus for breast cancer. It's assumed currently that probably people will find other viruses, connected with other types of human cancer, and we'll know about that as we go along.

Q:

But this has always been suspected but never...

Lasker:

Nobody has ever had anything that they've been able to say, “Yes, I found the same thing.”

Q:

Well, how does it happen that it's broken through at this point?

Lasker:

Isn't that extraordinary?

Q:

How does it happen?

Lasker:

I don't know. I guess virology just got to a point where they've done enough work so they found it. They're having a meeting in Roswell Park supported by the American Cancer Society.

Q:

This is in September?

Lasker:

Yes, the first three days of September. All the leading





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