Cancer Chemotherapy — Present Status and Prospects

A REALISTIC appraisal of today's subject might appropriately, if regrettably, begin with the statement that with but 2 possible exceptions chemotherapy does not now eradicate cancer in man. We are therefore led to the generalization that this mode of treatment should not presently be employed as primary therapy when cure seems possible by surgery or radiation. (In my use of the term chemotherapy, I shall refer to chemicals, including hormones, employed in attempts to control cancer; I shall not in this discussion consider the role of radioactive chemicals.)In presenting the basis for my conviction that in the undefined future . . .