SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

Chemotherapy is now climbing up a steep slope with difficulty, though we have achieved fairly good success in treatment of hematologic malignancies. To expand the success definitely to the treatment of solid cancers, we must seek for rational and effective combination of various treatment modalities. The principal objectives of the program area of treatment in the second five year period are to develop new antitumor drugs, new development in radiation oncology, new immunotherapeutic approaches, and combined modality studies most appropriate to specific disease sites. Disease sites to be emphasized include gastric cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer and bladder cancer.
Through the term of 1979 FY, a cooperative clinical trial in patients with advanced gastric cancer, employing the protocols common to both countries, was initiated, which has extensively promoted a mutual comprehension between the United States and Japan in the practice, analysis, and evaluation of clinical data in order to establish future cooperative studies in the treatment of cancers cited above.