REPORT ON EXCHANGE OF SCIENTISTS

Dispatch of 3 American scientists to Japan, who were experts in proton radiation therapy, was very helpful for the Japanese side, because the research in this field is still in the beginning stages in Japan and there is a lot of technology developed in the United States. The future cooperation in this field through this program will be greatly profitable for both countries, especially for Japan.
A clinical doctor of Cancer Institute Hospital, Noboru Horikoshi, M.D., was sent to the University of Texas System Cancer Center in Houston. He visited Medical Breast Service in M.D. Anderson Hospital to learn how the breast cancer patients are accepted, diagnosed, and treated by a cooperative team of surgeons, radiologists, and clinical oncologists in this Hospital. It was very useful, because presently in Japan breast cancer patients are mostly accepted and treated in the department of surgery of hospital.