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Q:

You mean it will focus in on...?

Lasker:

It will kill it, yes. Now, if that works, that's fine, because for a lot of people it's too late for a vaccination, but this has not been widely tried and it can't be tried on 50,000 people. There are many types of cancer, so it would be much better to have a successful vaccine than even the best treatment really.

Q:

This would identify the kind of interferon that would be effective.

Lasker:

Yes, that the antibody would seek out and destroy a specific kind of cancer cell...hopefully because it was an antibody to that cell.

Q:

You said last time that there was a great deal of excitement about this in the United States, and that all young researchers were knowledgeable about it. Where are we making the greatest progress in this area?

Lasker:

Well, I know that Gutterman is trying to get people going to make antibodies to certain kinds of cells and M. D. Anderson at the University of Texas and that we have supported Ruddle, Dr. Ruddle, who is also doing this and who is supplying his results to Dr. Gutterman directly.

Q:

Now, Ruddle is at Yale?





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