The Nation : U.S.-Soviet Cancer Research Announced

U.S. cancer researchers announced a joint cancer study with the Soviet Union. Scientists from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston said the study--three separate clinical trials--will be the first of its kind. It will involve carefully monitored trials of new therapies on several hundred Soviet and American patients over two years, said Dr. Emil Frei III, director of the Dana-Farber institute, which is affiliated with Harvard Medical School. The Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center in Los Angeles and Roswell Park Cancer Center in Buffalo, N.Y., will also participate.