Institute, private citizens join forces against cancer
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The structure's top level houses the B.
Everett Jordan Ward, a 20-room inpatient
unit for patients getting protocol
treatments. All of the 22 registered
nurses on the ward have had extra
training in cancer patient care.
"These nurses have been selected
because of their ability to be supportive
and to give excellent care," head nurse
Brenda Corley said. "Being told you have
cancer is a crisis in the life of the patient
and the patient's family, and we can help."
An oncology social worker and
recreation therapists also help Morris
Building patients and their families.
Research studies
More than 40 research studies are
under way in the building. Among other
studies, sp>ecialists are:
1) combining microwave heat and X-
ray therapy against cancerous tumors on
or just below the skin,
2) fighting cancer of the ovary by
boosting patients' natural defenses and,
at the same time, giving them anticancer
drugs,
3) developing blood tests for recurrent
breast cancer,
4) using chromosome tests to
diagnose leukemia and allow prompt
decisions on treatment,
5) testing combinations of drugs plus
radiation therapy against brain tumors,
6) looking for ways to treat childhood
leukemias more effectively,
7) comparing two combinations of
drugs against cancer of the colon and
rectum,
8) using a new drug against advanced
breast cancer.
Edwin A. Morris Clinical Cancer Research Building
9) treating advanced prostate cancer
with a five-drug combination,
10) combining pre-operative radiation
plus surgery for bladder cancer,
11) treating head and neck tumors with
a four-drug combination, and
12) fighting one type of leukemia with a
combination of four drugs.
$1.4 million in private donations
While the National Cancer Institute
footed most of the bill for the Morris
Building, private individuals and grdups
contributed $1.4 million.
Morris gave the center $1 million in
December 1976. Twenty-two other
groups and individuals made
contributions of $10,000 or more each.
They are:
Charlotte — Carolina Freight Carriers
Corporation
Concord — Mrs. Samuel I. Parker and
Mrs. Arthur Moss
Durham — Pat Downey Joklik and
family. Dr. Wolfgang Joklik
Swanson to tackle long-range plans in new post
Louis E. Swanson, director of the
Medical Center Planning Office for the
past 18 years, has been named to a new
position as director of facilities
programming.
He will be more directly responsible for
developing an updated long-range
physical facilities plan for the medical
center, and he will work with Dr. Jane
Elchlepp, assistant vice president for
health affairs — planning and analysis, in
space inventory and management.
Elchlepp, who announced Swanson's
move to his new position, said that the
directorship of facilities design has been
assumed by Larry D. Nelson, who also is
co-director of the Duke Hospital North
Design and Construction Control Office.
She said Swanson will review project
proposals, making sure that program
Professional news
Dr. Lawrence Myers, assistant professor of
community and family medicine, presented a
paper entitled "A Markov Chain Model for
Prostate Cancer" at the annual meeting of the
American Statistical Association Aug. 15 in
San Diego. Co-authors were Drs. David F.
Paulson, William Berry, Edwin B. Cox, John
Laszio and Wilma Stanley.
Dr. Daniel B. Menzel, associate professor of
pharmacology and medicine, was one of six
scientists from the Triangle area who recently
served on an Environmental Protection
Agency panel studying nitrogen oxide. Their
advice will be used in formulating national air
pollution control standards.
Marilyn MacQueen, supervisor of the
Duke-VA Transplant Lab, received the
Upjohn/SEOPF (South-Eastern Organ
Procurement Foundation) Award for her work
as a member of the histocompatibility
committee and as associate editor of the
SEOPF Newsletter. The Upjohn Co., a
pharmaceutical firm, cosponsors the award.
MacQueen has been named councillor-at-large
and editor of the newsletter for the American
Association of Clinical Histocompatibility
Testing.
descriptions are complete and compatible
with long-range planning goals, and
transmit them to the Planning Office for
implementation.
Swanson received a bachelor's degree
in business administration at Hamline
University in St. Paul, Minn., and earned
a certificate in hospital administration at
Duke. He holds a Duke faculty
appointment as associate professor of
hospital administration.
Prior to becoming director of planning
in 1960, Swanson was assistant
administrative director of Duke Hospital.
His new quarters are in the basement
of the hospital (yellow zone) in the area
previously occupied by Radiation
Therapy.
SEPTEMBER
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Greensboro — Blue Bell, Inc.
Foundation, Jeane E. Frazer, Emry C. and
Eleanor Green, Clyde L. Hunt, J. Elmo
Jones, John T. Lamb and the Lamb
Distributing Co., Roger and Christine Le
Matty, Piedmont Ford Truck Sales, Inc.,
Henry Rauch and family
High Point — Joseph Hutchens ,
Kingsport, Tennessee — Kathryn and
Thomas LaGuardia Jr.
Lexington — Kathleen and and A.
Starling Johnson Sr.
Lumberton — Wilham D. Linkhaw
Palatka, Florida — Hal L. Jones
Sanford — Wilham E. Horner Sr. and
family, Edward M. Williams
Saxapahaw — B. Everett Jordan family
Tryon — citizens of Tryon
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The Medical Center Calendar lists lectures, symposia and other activities of interest to faculty, staff and students. Notices should be sent to Box 33 54 no later
than one week prior to publication. If last minute scheduling makes it impossible to send a written notice in time, please call 684-4148.
Friday, Sept. 15
12:45 p.m.
1 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 18
12 noon
Tuesday, Sept. 19
7:30 p.m.
Biochemistry and Genetics Joint Seminar. Dr. Sharyn Endow, Dept, of Microbiology and Immunology, "Preferential
Replication of Specific Ribosomal Gene Repeats in Plytene Nuclei of Drosophila," Rm 147, Nanaline H. Duke Bldg. Coffee at
12:15 in the lobby.
Network for Continuing Medical Education (NCME). Program on "Influenza Vaccination, Two Points of View: Heparin
Full-Dose Therapy and Heparin Mini-Dose Therapy." View in Rm M406 at Duke and Rms D3008, C6002 and C7002 and
Bldg. 16 at the VA Hospital. (Previous NCME programs have been catalogued in the Medical Center Library and are available
for viewing there.)
Pathology Research Conference. Dr. Phillip Pratt, professor, "Statistical Data from the ECMO Study," Rm M204.
Triangle Clinical Microbiologists. Dr. Malcolm H. Rourk Jr., assistant professor of pediatrics, will discuss the relevance of
respiratory cultures in cystic fibrosis, Rm M312. (Open to all interested medical technologists and students.)
Wednesday, Sept. 20
8:30 a.m. Sigma Theta Tau coffee. Board Rm.
1 p.m. NCME. Program on "Abnormalities of Ovulation: Reaching Diagnosis." See Fri., Sept. 15, for viewing areas.
, Thursday, Sept. 21
10 a.m. Special Pathology Research Conference. Dr. Krzysztof Kizawczynski, associate professor and head of Pathomorphology
Lab, National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland, "Immunomorphology of the Humoral Clearance of Hepatitis B Virus
Antigenic Material," Rm M204.