National Cancer Advisory Board

President Reagan announced the appointment Friday of Irene Pollin, wife of Washington Bullets basketball team owner Abe Pollin, as a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board. She is a psychiatric social worker and executive director of the Medical Crisis Counseling Center in Washington.

President Clinton announced his intention to appoint three new members to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Dr. J. Michael Bishop of San Francisco is a professor at UC San Francisco. He shared a 1989 Nobel Prize for research on oncogenes. Dr. Philip S. Schein of Pennsylvania is head of U.S. Bioscience. Dr. Vainutis K. Vaitkevicius of Detroit is president of the Michigan Cancer Foundation.

President Clinton announced his intention to appoint three new members to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Dr. J. Michael Bishop of San Francisco is a professor at UC San Francisco. He shared a 1989 Nobel Prize for research on oncogenes. Dr. Philip S. Schein of Pennsylvania is head of U.S. Bioscience. Dr. Vainutis K. Vaitkevicius of Detroit is president of the Michigan Cancer Foundation.

At the close of one of his last meetings as chairman of the National Cancer Advisory Board, Dr. David Korn recalls the exasperation he and his colleagues on the panel felt about the limited amount of funding available for cancer research. The board, which advises the National Cancer Institute on how to use its resources, was stymied by the small amount of money available for an array of worthy research proposals.

I felt enormously wronged by Spiegel's article. While "stars" always have been and will continue to be lured away from a cancer center as distinguished as is UCLA's, the depth of expertise is such that high quality will not suffer in the least. As a member of the UCLA Cancer Center and having just completed a seven-year term as a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), I can truly attest to the fact that this center, which is one of only 24 NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers, is a national treasure.

The goal set by the National Cancer Institute to reduce cancer deaths by 50% by the year 2000 will fail unless known preventive measures are more widely practiced, cancer control experts told a meeting of the National Cancer Advisory Board in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

At the close of one of his last meetings as chairman of the National Cancer Advisory Board, Dr. David Korn recalls the exasperation he and his colleagues on the panel felt about the limited amount of funding available for cancer research. The board, which advises the National Cancer Institute on how to use its resources, was stymied by the small amount of money available for an array of worthy research proposals.

President Reagan has named Howard M. Temin, a professor of viral oncology and cell biology at the University of Wisconsin, to the National Cancer Advisory Board, the White House announced Wednesday.

A government panel of cancer experts agreed to help educate women in their 40s about whether to have regular mammograms, but did not issue definitive guidelines on the value of the test for women in that age group. "We will not be able to say the exact age at which a woman should start mammography," said Barbara K. Rimer of Duke University Medical Center who chairs the 18-member National Cancer Advisory Board. Research doesn't provide answers, she said.

Suelar Patterson Whitfield, personnel manager for the last three years for the city of Bakersfield, will begin working March 4 as Pasadena's human resources director. Whitfield, 43, will be responsible for affirmative action and personnel matters. Whitfield has a master's degree in management from Pace University in New York and also has worked in management with Newsweek Inc. and the Bristol-Myers Co. in New York City.

I felt enormously wronged by Spiegel's article. While "stars" always have been and will continue to be lured away from a cancer center as distinguished as is UCLA's, the depth of expertise is such that high quality will not suffer in the least. As a member of the UCLA Cancer Center and having just completed a seven-year term as a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), I can truly attest to the fact that this center, which is one of only 24 NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers, is a national treasure.

The goal set by the National Cancer Institute to reduce cancer deaths by 50% by the year 2000 will fail unless known preventive measures are more widely practiced, cancer control experts told a meeting of the National Cancer Advisory Board in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

President Reagan announced the appointment Friday of Irene Pollin, wife of Washington Bullets basketball team owner Abe Pollin, as a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board. She is a psychiatric social worker and executive director of the Medical Crisis Counseling Center in Washington.

The American Cancer Society on Sunday recommended that women in their 40s undergo routine annual mammograms, a move that will further accelerate the ongoing national debate over what in recent years has become one of the most volatile issues in modern medicine. The action represented a change from the society's current recommendation, which is that women in this age group have mammograms every one to two years.

A federal advisory panel Thursday recommended a sweeping overhaul of the nation's anti-cancer campaign, predicting that--if its present course continues--cancer will surpass heart disease as the nation's leading killer within five years. In a report to Congress, the group said that the program suffers from a lack of coordination and a shortage of funds needed to pursue "unprecedented opportunities" in scientific research.