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Article in New Yo* Thee Mar& 6, 1948 U. S. 0- THREE ISOTOPES FRgg TO AID ATWIC FIGHT ON CANCER Washington, March 6 - The United States Atomic Energy Commission announced today a #3,000,000 program t o encourage researoh I n the w e 04 radioactive materials for determining the nature of cancer and for its diagnosis and treatment. Radioisotopes produoed i n the same type of chain-reacting oven wed for the atomic bomb will bn provided free, exoept f o r handling and shipping charges, t o qualliied medical and research uurkere. A s the first step, effective April 1, p r i m tag6 rill be renmed from iodineU1, phosphorus-32 and sodima-2,$, with other available irotopea u s e m in cancer study and treatment t o be added t o the list later. The commission also dll extend additional fiaancial support t o selected cancer-maearoh projects carried on bp hospitals and Pnivemitles in various parts of the country. Cancer-research facilities, including uted hosp tal space, will be established at four commission laboratories. The comnlssion dll continue, under the new program, its support of cancer-related research carried on by the C o d t t e e on Atomic QPsualities of the Nationdl Research Council. The commission's program will be flnanced from funds authorized bp Congress for cancer research. yet been found generally useful in cancer treatment, said the conmission expected research opportunities t o be widened bp the removal of all charges except for handling and shipping of the radioactive naterlala. Its announcement, pointing out t h a t radioisotopes had not The isotopes dll be obtained, M heratofom, from the Iso top sh ch, Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge, Tenn. A mber of institutions in addition t o those no11 mceivfng financial support from the commission are being seleoted for aid. projects a t the Memorial Hospital for Treatment of Cancar and Allied Diseases, New The d ssl on now assists re~ear&
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York; Harrrard University, the Unlveraity of kcheater and the University of C&- Cancer research facilities will b established a t the copMlselonl~laboratorlea a t O a k Ridge, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island; Argonno National Laboratory, Chicago, and Loe Alamoa Laboratory, Los Usnos, A. M. Patients dll be subjected at those laboratories to direct radiation from produced isotopes which lose their radioactivity nith in minutes o r hours, preventing shipment for any substantial d istana. In addition, investigators dll ham access to reactorSince such treatment w i l l require patients t o be In hospitals at or near the laboratories, the commission nil1 make available a limited number of beds for patients selected by investigators studying certain types of tumors. The studies dll begin a t Oak Ridge Hospital, where eight or ten bade dll be made availahtile rcithin three months. laboratories is scheduled over the next two years. Completion of hospitals a t the other