Artists move
The medical art facility is in the
process of moving to the Bell
Building, Room 328.
This is the first of a number of
moves involving offices within the
Division of Audiovisual Education.
Patient photography will begin
sharing 020 (basement, yellow zone)
with copy photography within the
coming weeks.
Further details will be given in
subsequent issues of Intercom.
Former HEW official to be week-long visitor
Dr. Theodore Cooper, former assistant
secretary for health in the Department of
Health Education and Welfare, will spend
next week on campus as Alpha Omega
Alpha (AOA) Visiting Professor of
Health and Public Policy.
He will give a series of speeches and will
participate in informal discussions with
medical students.
Monday at 3 p.m. in the law school.
Cooper will address a forum held in
conjunction with the Student Bar
Association.
The following day, also it 3 p.m., he will
speak at a Colloquium on Medicine and
Technology cosponsored by the Institute
of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs in
Room 2031 (purple zone, second floor).
Cooper will be the Dean's Hour speaker
Wednesday at 5 p.m. in the Hospital
Amphitheater (yellow zone, first floor).
Medical students are encouraged to
attend each lecture, according to David
Shimm, AOA president. Shimm also said
students could sign up for one of the
informal dinner discussions with Cooper
scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.
Thursday evening. Cooper will be the
keynote speaker at the annual initiation
banquet of AOA, medical honor society.
The banquet will be held in the West
Union Ballroom at 7 p.m.
Cooper is dean of the Cornell
University Medical College. He has been
director of the National Heart and Lung
Institute.
An outspoken critic of the Food and
Drug Administration, he served as
assistant secretary for health during the
Ford administration.
Maddox chosen as president
Dr. George L. Maddox, director of the
Center for the Study of Aging and
Human Development, was installed as
president of the Gerontological Society at
its annual meeting in San Francisco Nov.
18.
Maddox is the third
Duke faculty member
to head the 4,000-
member organization
in the past 10 years.
The society encour
ages the scientific
study of aging and
greater awareness of
the problems of the
aged. Included among
its members are phy
sicians, research'scientists, .nurses and
other health professionals.
Representatives of the group
frequently are called upon to serve as
consultants to the Congress and
government agencies concerned with the
aged.
The two Duke professors who served
as society presidents also were directors
of the aging center. Dr. Ewald W. Busse,
now dean of medical and allied health
education, was president in 1968-69, and
Dr. Carl Eisdorfer, now chairman of
psychiatry at the University of
Washington, headed the group in 1972-
73.
Maddox succeeded Eisdorfer as
director of the aging center in 1972.
A native of McComb, Miss., Maddox
earned his B.A. degree at Millsaps
College, his M.A. at Boston University
and his Ph.D. at Michigan State
University. He joined the Duke faculty in
1960, and in 1965 he was named full
professor.
THE SENATOR WASH T A PATIENT—He had his arm in a sling because of a horseback riding
accident, but Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Md., wasn't at Duke as a patient. The senator, on campus to
address students, came by the medical center to meet with Dr. William G. Aniyan (left), vice
president for health affairs, and Dr. Ewald W. Busse, associate provost and dean of medical and
allied health education, and to discuss a medical student capitation fund measure before the
Congress. A Mathias amendment to the legislation would eliminate the controversial admission
to medical schools in this country of Americans attending foreign medical schools. (Photo hu Parker
Herring)
Rundles notes progress in cancer research
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chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
"Tlie survival time during the past 20
years has doubled," Rundles said. "Once it
was two to four years; now it's at least
four to eight years."
What about smoking?
The new president doesn't sidestep
questions about smoking and health.
"Everyone knows that the best way to
avoid lung cancer is not to smoke," he
said. "But reducing tar and nicotine intake
from tobacco is a step in the right
direction."
Rundles said the ACS isn't trying to put
tobacco farmers and cigarette
manufacturers out of business.
"The society is fully aware of the
economic importance of tobacco to
farmers and manufacturers in North
Carolina and some other states," he said.
"We cannot abolish smoking by edict or
legislation. Prohibition didn't work."
Turning to environmental causes of
cancer, Rundles said, "The idea that 80 to
90 per cent of cancers are
environmentally caused is at least half
right. The other half hasn't been
scientifically proven.
"Tobacco and asbestos clearly cause
sojne cancers and exposure to both
magnifies the risk," he said. But he added
that other substances, such as saccharin,
"may produce cancer in animals but
‘LEVS GO TAKE A
LOOK " Dorothy Beard
says to husband Dr. ^
Joseph Beard during
ceremonies dedicating
the renovated labora
tories on the first floor
of the Bell Building.
The laboratories were
named "The Dorothy
and Joseph W. Beard
Surgical Research Lab
oratories" in honor of
the couple who did re
search work in the
space for 35 years.
When the Beards were
presented a scrapbook
containing pictures of
the remodeled labora
tory, Mrs, Beard re
marked, '^You've got to
be kidding, that can't be
the same old Bell Build
ing!" The event was
part of Medical Alumni
Weekend, Nov. 17-19.
Another photo from
the weekend appears
on page four. (Photos by
Parker Herring)
haven't been proven convincingly to be
dangerous to people."
Much more research should be done on
suspected causes of cancer in the
environment, Rundles said.
"Dr. Cuyler Hammond of the ACS
national staff has been a leader in this
field and we have given extensive support
to others, such as Dr. Irvin Selikoff of the
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine," he said.
Healthful hints
Rundles offered these hints to
individuals who want to reduce their risk
of getting cancer:
—If you use alcohol or tobacco, use
them only in moderation.
—Avoid obesity; fat women have a
higher risk for some cancer.
—Use insecticides and pesticides
carefully.
—Avoid unnecessary drugs and
medications.
—Avoid overexposure to the sun.
In addition, he said women should have
regular pelvic exams and Pap smears. X-
ray exams of the breasts (mammograhy)
are useful for detecting breast cancer,
particularly in women over 50, he said.
Rundles said men and women over SO
should have regular physical exams,
including tests for blood in the stool, an
early sign of possible colon or rectal
cancer.
Active in oganization for 20 years
The new president has served on ACS
committees at the state and national level
-for 20 years. He is a member of the
• society's state board of directors,
chairman of the national ACS Medical
and Scientific Advisory Committee, and a
national director-at-large. He has been a i
- member of three advisory committees of
the National Institute of Health.
The professor received his M.D. degree
from Duke in 1940, having earned his
Ph.D. at Cornell three years earher! He
' joined the Duke faculty in 1945.
Author or co-author of more than 100
scientific papers, Rundles is also a co
editor of the textbook Hematology, which
appeared in a second edition last week.