70 Specialists Coming Wednesday
Major U.S. Cancer Meeting Slated Here
Representatives from all of» the
country's 17 comprehensive cancer
centers and from a leading cancer
research center in Russia will attend a
Cancer Centers Conference here
Wednesday and Thursday.
More than 70 people will take part in
the event.
The conference will open at 9 a.m.
Wednesday with a welcome by Dr.
Ewald Busse, director of Medical and
Allied Health Education at Duke.
Fifteen-year-old Liz Jones learned a
foolproof way to lose weight not long
ago.
She learned it thanks to a working
mother named Barbara Echols who's
just declared war on teenaged ot>esity
and early deaths.
The method is slow motion eating. Liz
and nine other teenagers tried it one
Saturday morning in a medical center
conference room.
Liz eyed the spinach souffle and
carrot salad on her plate; she sniffed
the blend of aromas; then she lifted a
forkful of cheesy spinach to her mouth.
Laying her fork down, she chewed
exactly 20 times. Her fellow students
from the Carolina Friends School
followed suit.
‘‘Is this the way wine tasters taste
their wine? ' she’d ask later.
The group members munched
through the meal at the same drowsy
cadence—18.19.201
'How many of you feel more filled up
than you thought you would?' Duke s
Dr. Susan Schiffman wanted to know
when they were half finished.
Every hand went up.
‘It's absolutely amazing, said Dr.
Schiffman. the medical psychologist
who'd taught the method that morning.
"When I restrain myself for a week. I
have been able to cut my calories by
one-fourth and feel more full (than
before)."
Liz made a mental note.
Here is the program for the two days;
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9:10 a.m. — "Basic Research in a
Cancer Center,” by Dr. Wolfgang Joklik.
chairman of Duke’s Department of
Microbiology and Immunology.
9:30 a.m. — Panel discussion on “The
Cancer Center Data Base.” Panelists
will be Dr. Guy Newell, assistant
director of the National Cancer Institute
(NCI), who will be moderator; Dr. John
Laszio, professor of medicine at Duke;
“I just have this thing about two or
three pounds that come on and go off,
she said. "If I can just eat more slowly
and appreciate my food more...rII have
it made. "
Appreciating healthy food more is
exactly what the 10 kids in the room —
and 10 others — have been doing since
the first week in December.
That’s when Ms. Echols, the medical
center’s chief of grants and contracts,
first brought them together to test a
new way of teaching nutrition.
The way the subject is taught In most
schools is " ghastly." she said. "It s too
often been tacked onto some other
course you get only on a rainy day.
There’s been a lot of non-relevant
material taught.
So the energetic mom decided to set
things straight by designing a course of
her own. She gathered insights first
hand — as a mother of two girls. 12 and
15; as the wife of Dr. William G. Aniyan.
vice-president for health affairs; as a
member of a nationwide task force on
consumer education; and as author of a
book on teenaged nutrition to be
entitled "Diet is a Four-Letter Word.
She could have focused on
pre-schoolers who are just beginning to
form their eating habits, she said, but
decided on teenagers instead for
several reasons.
Once you put on that weight as a
teenager, you're less likely to take it
off, she said. Adolescents, too, are
and Dr. John H. Schneider, director of
NCI’s International Cancer Research
Data Bank Program.
11:10 a.m. — “Opportunities in
Epidemiologic Studies in Cancer
Centers ” by Dr. Bernard G. Greenberg,
dean of UNC’s School of Public Health.
11:40 a.m. — ""Environmental
Carcinogenesis ” by Dr. David Rail,
director of the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences.
1:30 p.m. — ""Concerns of Industry
" beginning to accept sole responsibility
for their whole lives' and thus are
keenly interested in topics they feel
directly affect them.
"More importantly,■’ said Ms. Echols.
" many of them are soon going to be
parents who will influence their own
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Harry E. Gentry, manager of parking
and traffic at the medical center, has
announced that hospital employees will
no longer be allowed to park their cars
on the first two levels of the parking
garage after this week.
The decision to prohibit such parking
came after word reached his office that
patients and visitors were having
difficulty finding parking spaces in the
garage.
He indicated that some patients have
been made late for medical
appointments as a result of the filled
spaces.
"The patient and visitor traffic load
has increased, he said on Monday,
"and the parking garage is the only
place they have to leave their cars near
the hospital.
"Although we'd like to t>e able to
allow employees to park there when it’s
Related to Carcinogenic Hazards ” by
Dr. Perry J. Gehring, director of
Toxicology Research Laboratories.
Dow Chemical Co.
2 p.m. — Presentation by Dr. Nikolai
P. Napalkov. director of the Petrov
Scientific Institute of Oncology in the
Soviet Union.
4:10 p.m. — “Status of Organ Site
Research Programs of the National
Cancer Institute ” by Dr. Arnold Brown,
professor of pathology at the Mayo
Clinic.
4:40 p.m. — “Safety Requirements for
Hazardous Agent Research by Dr. Darell
Bigner, associate professor of
pathology at Duke and chairman of the
Animal Laboratory and Isolation Facility
(ALIF) Committee.
5:10 p.m. — tour of ALIF.
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8:30-10 a.m. — Panel discussion on
“ Interaction of the Cancer Center with
the Community. ” Panelists will be Dr.
Denman Hammond of the University of
Southern California (moderator), who
will discuss ‘“Interaction with
Community Hospitals;;" Dr. Harold
Rusch of the University of Wisconsin.
“ Lay and Professional Education
Activity; ' and Alan Rhone of NCI, “Use
of Communications Media.”
10 a.m. — “ Cooperative Programs of
the National Cancer Institute and the
American Cancer Society” by Charles
R. Ebersol, director-at-large of the
American Cancer Society.
10:40 a.m. — “ Clinical Research
Opportunities and Problems in
Comprehensive Cancer Centers ’ by Dr.
John Durant, director of the
Comprehensive Cancer Center at the
University of Alabama.
11:10 a.m. — “ Evaluation of Progress
in a Comprehensive Cancer Center ” by
Dr. John Yarbro. director of NCI’s
Cancer Centers Program.
11:40 a.m. — “Federal Support of
Training Programs ” by Benno Schmidt,
chairman of the President s Cancer
Panel.
1:30 p.m. — “Current USA Cancer
Statistics■’ by Dr. Sidney Cutler, acting
head of NCI’s Demography Section.
2 p.m. — ‘Categorical Research
Centers; Impact on Departmental
Structure of Medical Schools' by Dr.
William G. Aniyan. Duke’s vice
president for health affairs.
2:30 — Panel discussion on
“Resource Needs of Cancer Centers.”
Panelists will be Dr. Albert Owens of
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convenient for them, patients and
visitors come first. If there’s no room for
them, there’s no need for any of us to
come to work.” he added.
Gentry said public safety officers will
issue warning tickets to employees for a
week after this notice appears. After the
grace period, regular parking citations
will be placed on vehicles determined to
t>elong to employees.
If the ticketing of autos doesn’t proVfe
successful in alleviating the problem,
he said a towing policy would have to
be announced.
Gentry said that female employees
will still be allowed to park in the garage
after 2:15 p.m. and male employees will
still be allowed to park there after 5 p.m.
There is no charge for this service' to
night personnel if they have their cars
registered because the patient and
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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 14
APRIL 4.1975
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
WESLEY CLARK
LIZ JONES
Foolproof Diet: Slow Motion Eating
By William Erwin
Two Levels of Parking Garage
Closed to Employee Vehicles