Farber, a Harvard pathologist and cancer researcher, was one of Lasker's most stellar "citizen witnesses" before Congress and an ardent supporter of NCI's chemotherapy program, which he hailed as "the greatest mobilization of resources--man, mineral, animal, and money--ever undertaken to conquer a single disease." He had discovered in the early 1950s that treatment with anti-folic acid compounds resulted in permanent remission of acute leukemia in children; the first time physicians had been able to produce such a remission. After the recent discovery of penicillin and streptomycin had given physicians unprecedented control over infectious diseases, Farber's discovery seemed to confirm the possibility that scientists would discover a "magic bullet" against cancer.
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Date:
1955-08-19 (August 19, 1955)
Creator:
Farber, Sidney
Harvard Medical School. Children's Hospital
Recipient:
Lasker, Mary
Source:
Original Repository: Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Mary Lasker Papers
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