III. TREATMENT
SEMINARS
| (1) Seventh Annual Program Review Meeting of Cancer Treatment Area of the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Cancer Research Program "Development and Evaluation of Treatment of Cancer with Combined Modalities" | ||
| Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., November 4-6, 1981 | ||
| Organizers: | John D. Douros Stephen K. Carter Yoshio Sakurai |
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| Participants: | U.S.-16 ; Japan-7 |
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| (2) Seminar on "Evaluation of Immunotherapy" | ||
| Maui, Hawaii, U.S.A., October 12-14, 1981 | ||
| Organizers: | Yuichi Yamamura Ichiro Azuma Richard Hodes |
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| Participants: | U.S.-7 ; Japan-7 |
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EXCHANGE OF SCIENTISTS
| (1) Dr. Glenn E. Sheline, Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Univ. of California at San Francisco |
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| Dates: | October 1 to October 13, 1981 | |
| Host Scientist: | Dr. Yoichiro Umegaki, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research | |
| Subject: | Study of desimetric intercomparisons in both conventional treatment beams and proton beam, and also discussions on clinical trial of radiation potentiators for treatment of anoxic tumors | |
| (2) Dr. Mark Soloway, Professor, Dept. of Urology, Univ. of Tennessee Center for the Health Science |
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| Dates: | November 6 to November 15, 1981 | |
| Host Scientist: | Dr. Tadao Niijima, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo | |
| Subject: | Inspection and information exchange on diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer between the United States and Japan. Stimulation of probability to set up a collaborative research on bladder cancer. Participation to the seminar on treatment of bladder cancer in Tokyo, organized by Drs. Niijima and Friedell | |
| (3) Dr. Mark D. Hafermann, Section of Radiation Oncology, The Mason Clinic |
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| Dates: | November, 1981 | |
| Host Scientist: | Dr. Tadao Niijima, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo | |
| Subject: | Role of Radiation Therapy in the Treatment of Bladder Cancer | |
| (4) Dr. Tetsuo Inada, Professor, Department of Basic Radiology, Tsukuba University Medical School |
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| Dates: | October 25 to November 9, 1981 | |
| Host Scientists: | Dr. H. Suit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Dr. A. Smith, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Dr. C. Tobias, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |
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| Subjects: | Studies of Medical use of proton: a) construction of facilities; b) dosimetry of proton beams; c) hard and soft wares of proton beam handling; and d) detecters and reconstruction algorithms for the proton radiography and CT | |
| (5) Dr. Hideyuki Akaza, Lecturer, Dept. of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo |
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| Dates: | August 20, 1981, to June 18, 1982 | |
| Host Scientist: | Dr. Mark Soloway, Professor, Dept. of Urology, Univ. of Tennessee Center for the Health Science | |
| Subject: | Study on chemotherapy of the bladder cancer and also post-operative bladder instillation of anticancer drugs to prevent the recurrence of the cancer. Experimental approach, as well as clinical, using animal models, transplanted by transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. | |
EXCHANGE OF MATERIALS
A continued exchange of drugs for preclinical investigation has been carried out during the period of this fiscal year. Exchange of materials and the standard animal tumor grafts has been performed through the mediating activity of the Contract between Cancer Chemotherapy Center and National Cancer Institute, U.S.A.