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Q:

Would gamble, you know.

Lasker:

Yes, it depends on how the publicity works.

Q:

That's one area where you're an expert.

Lasker:

Well, but there are experts in the area; and it depends on what the experience of people like Gutterman, who have guts, have, because if they find that they have a few patients who might be glad to be vaccinated in the beginning. We'll see. But there is actually a virus that everybody agrees about found by Gallo at the National Cancer Institute. He was a winner of the Basic Research Lasker Award.

Q:

There's another aspect to this whole picture that you need to bring me up-to-date on, and that is the monoclonal antibodes of Dr. Milstein at Cambridge in England, because it's related to this whole thing.

Lasker:

Yes, well, it is hoped that monoclonal antibodies ... in fact, you can in animals now find an antibody that will go... and you can make it radioactive with a certain drug that will find the type of cancer cell that it's an antibody to and carry it to that cell and destroy that cell.





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