FUTURE ACTIVITIES
- Collaboration on developing a hypothesis, based on laboratory immunology, to explain the ethnic differences in frequencies of a variety of lymphocytic diseases.
- Review of rare cases of T cell leukemia in Seattle, studied by Marshall Kadin, M.D., to determine if they are identical with the cluster of Adult T Cell Leukemia in Kyushu.
- Collaboration between (a) Dr. Ellis L. Reinherz and Dr. Ko Okumura on immunologic aspects of T cell leukemia in Japan versus the United States; (b) Dr. Costan W. Berard and Dr. Mizu Kojima on patho-immunomorphology; and (3) Dr. Robert W. Miller and Dr. Kuno Aoki on epidemiology of lymhoproliferative versus autoimmune diseases in Japan and the United States.
- United States and Japanese pathologists from Honolulu, and perhaps other specialists in attendance at the Honolulu lynphocyte workshop, will reconvene for interim reports at the time of the "International Cancer Congress" in Seattle in September 1982.
- Kohji Ezaki, M.D., will spend 40 days, September 21 to October 30, 1981, in Dr. Fritz H. Bach's Immunology Research Center at the University of Wisconsin where he will work on the generation of anti-tumor cytotoxic lymphocytes by auto- and allo-sensitization in vitro. He will also spend five days each consulting with Dr. R.B. Herberman at the National Cancer Institute and Dr. E.M. Hersh at M.D. Anderson Hospital.
- Dr. Naoyoshi Mori, a pathologist at Tsukuba University, will spend from December 15, 1981, to March 14, 1982, in a U.S-Japan comparative study of T cell immunologic characteristics in lymphoma. He will spend one month with Dr. R.J. Lukes, University of Southern California and two months with Dr. C.W. Berard, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
- A workshop on tumors of cell-types derived from the neural crest will be planned for March 1982 in Honolulu, Hawaii.