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i me: i ! WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1978 THE FORTUNE COOKIES 1313 S. College Ave. Bryan, Texas 822-7661 THURSDAY LUNCH BUFFET (11:30-2) Hot and Sour Soup Fried Wonton Pepper Steak Onion Sweet and Sour Pork Chicken w/chinese vegetables DINNER SPECIAL: We serve an “Aggie Menu" at night on request. For $2.50 and up get wonton soup, 2 eggs rolls and one dish of your choice. TRY IT! YOU WILL LOVE IT! Is drug effective against cancer?_ Tests of thymidine to take month Small Ads... Big Results! CLASSIFIEDADS! United Press International WASHINGTON — The National Cancer Institute began testing a drug called thymidine on cancer pa tients a week ago and doctors say it may be several months before they can determine if it works for people as well as it does mice. Since the initial testing began on three patients at the NCI’s Balti more Cancer Research Center at the University of Maryland hospital, the institute and the hospital have received hundreds of inquiries from people seeking information about thymidine. “Our response is that at the pres ent time we have a limited amount of drug to test a limited number of patients,” said Dr. Peter Wiemik, who is directing the Baltimore tests. Wiemik said in a telephone inter view this week all that can be said so far is the three patients have not suf fered any apparent toxic effects. “We have to wait several weeks or longer to find out if the drug has, in fact, any anti-cancer effects in man. ” If thymidine seems to be retard ing the growth of cancer in the in itial patients, all of whom have spread of the disease to other or gans, Wiernik said additional tests will be needed to confirm the find- clude a total of 20 people in the in itial thymidine testing. In addition, the drug is being tested at the Stehlin Foundation for Cancer Research in Houston where the substance was developed as a possible anti-cancer agent. The first two patients who received thymi dine there died before therapy could be completed. The NCI acted with unusual speed in moving thymidine to human tests because it was effective in mice, causing disappearance of some tumors and shrinking others, and because Dr. Beppino Giovanella of the Stehlin Foundation demon strated its apparent nontoxic effects by administering large doses to him self. tainly enticing enough that; would want to test it, Muggias*; Wiemik said he viewed tlyi dine “as an exciting thing to Is because it’s active in animal T think the effect in mice is cer- tems and it didn’t turn up any$1$ icant toxicity in that system. Wt all looking for second general drugs, things that have activo without toxicity.” ings. LET’S MAKE ELECTION DAY A RANEY DAY! John Raney is no politician. He’s a Brazos County busi nessman, a family man. John’s record of participation in civic af fairs speaks for itself. Let’s put him to work for all the citizens of Brazos County. John Raney is Concerned John Raney is Qualified JOHN RANEY The Wise Choice for Brazos County Judge Political advertisement paid for by John Raney for County Judge Committee, Mrs. Katye Kowlerschke, Treasurer, 2315 Bristol, Bryan, Texas 77801. Dr. Franco Muggia, head of the NCI’s cancer therapy evaluation program, agreed it probably will be several months before any conclu sions can be reached about thymidine, a normal component of body cells. He noted it took several weeks for the treatment to affect cancer in laboratory mice and human tumors usually react slower. Supply of the drug is another problem. Several pounds of thymidine per patient is required, and the substance is in short supply because there had not been a large demand for it previously. It is being obtained from a variety of producers around the world and Muggia said there will be enough to conduct the initial testing. Wiernik said two more patients will be added to the test program this week and the NCI hopes to in- Dollar’s drop hurting Germany-based GIs United Press International BONN, West Germany — American GIs are fighting a differ ent kind of war in Germany — a bat tle of dollars against deutsche marks in which the stakes are daily survi val. The steady erosion of the Ameri can dollar against the mark has forced U.S. servicemen to turn to the black market to make ends meet, cost German merchants many of their American customers and re sulted in reduced services by the Defense Department for men and women in uniform. Stars and Stripes, the daily news paper of the U.S. armed forces, said in a series of articles on the impact of the “dying dollar” that the rapid drop in the greenback’s value will mean a cut in bus service for Ameri can schoolchildren. The newspaper quoted Allen D. Olson, coordinator for the schools, as saying it was too early to tell where other cuts will be made in services for the children of Ameri can GIs, but that other “adjust ments” will have to be made. Olson said dollars are converted into marks to pay for German em ployees and services — clerks,It drivers, janitors, some teack; utilities and maintenance costs and that the deflated dollar is: bringing in enough marks. “I don’t anticipate having, people go, but well have a 56c lion to $8 million adjustment make in our budgeting unless get some help.” Stars and Stripes said Cere merchants also are afiiected by steady drop that has sent the Jd exchange rate falling since from 4 marks to about 1.75 irait TRAVEL WANT TO STUDY OVERSEAS? NEED FINANCIAL HELP? The MSC OVERSEAS LOAN FUND is available for students interested in overseas travel. Information, applications & interview sign ups at secretary’s desk in Rm. 216 MSC. Sign up by November 8. 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