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Thank you for your letter dated Novcxber 1, 1974, regarding the correspondence with In view of article in The XnoxvfLIc NewsSentinel, I think it is important to put t h e objectives of the pertinent program of t h e Medical Division in their proper The Medical Division has been involved f o r many years in a radiation program pr hari ly concerned with providing palliative treatment for patients in advanced stages of various Poms of cancer, t&ny of t'nese patfsnts in the study had reached the stage where conventional treatment nodes had become ineffective. Through use of the unique facilities at OFtAU, many patients have benefited greatly in the sense of subjective improvements of their s-pptoms and in many instances they have experienced prolongea refilssions. At the same time, those tro a tmnt s offered the physicians of t h e Medical Division the opportunity to make observations that could possibly lead to more er'fective radiation therapy in general. It fs inportant to point out t h a t while the results of these treatments mitigated the symptoms of t h e disease, the chances of curin.; patients in this fashion were extremely unlikely. In the meantime, new and more pronising treatnent nodes are baing developed under the auspices or' tkre National Cancar readily avzflable to patients through their national programs such as are being planned now at the East Tennessee Cancer such a center will greatly benefit t ; ilr3 patiezts in that mre aggressive and sophisticated methods of trca+>.ent w L l l hecoi~e available to then. Such new treatment modes are becoming more It is clear that integration