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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1978
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Tests of thymidine to take month
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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.
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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
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