Progress in basic research has made it necessary to redetermine the possibility of classic endocrine therapy for the treatment of patients with breast cancer.
The subject of this publication, thyroid cancer, was the topic chosen for the First Symposium on Clinical Oncology, orga- nized by the Royal College of Radiologists, London, on 26 and 27 January 1979.
Upon wresting the control of the earth from the Titans, Zeus assigned the task of creating living creatures to two Titan brothers who had sided with him in the epic battle just concluded.
We have studied 24 cases of secondarily leukemic (stage V) lymphosarcoma (LS), 31 cases of "e;d'emblee"e; leukemic LS, and ten cases of lymphoid leukemic neoplasias transitional between "e;d'emblee"e; leukemic LS and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (eLL).
The cloning of hemopoietic cells in semisolid medium began some 12 years ago, and when colonies of T = and B = lymphocytes were grown by several groups last year, the last major subclasses of hemopoietic cells had been successfully cultured in vitro.
The cells of the immune system generate a large variety of binding sites which differ in their binding specificities and can therefore react specifically with a large variety of ligands.
Since the first observations of Busch in 1866, the possible use of heat as a therapeutic agent in the cure of cancer has been repeatedly subject to bursts of interest, almost invariably followed by periods of neglect and skepticism.
I would like to thank all my co-workers who have collaborated with me, from 1963 until now, in biological and clinical research in the field of cancer active immunotherapy, of its immuno- prevention and immunorestoration.
When I was asked by the Cancer Teaching Committee of the University of Chicago to set up a Symposium on Brain Tumors, I welcomed the opportunity to do so.
