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Note to File - Subject: Luncheon - Wednesday, April 25, 1979
with Lester Breslow LL

 

Accompanied by his wife Devra, George Reeder and
Ted Cooper at the Union Club.

This was at my behest having seen that Breslow was
giving some lectures at Cornell primarily to catch up
with the progress of the Annual Review of Public Health.

He said that was going well. They have recruited an
excellent board. They are probably not doing as much in
environmental health as he himself would like to see.

I should send him the suggestion about trying to
solicit something from Sugimura. On cancer from roasted
foods.

Much of the discussion was about how to get better
cooperation and organization of work in cancer control
versus cancer research. There is a lot of polarization
on the expenditure of funds. ‘The management of cancer
control appears not to be too effective. On the other
hand, there is grave concern that cancer control funds
have been robbed by the basic investigators.

Apparently, there needs to be a forum where there
can be more mutual criticism and communication between
these communities. I don't think the centers are a
particularly apt place to do it but rather something at
a more national level. But Devra herself owned up that

she probably had not exercised that route sufficiently
although she is deeply imbued with the importance of
public communication.

The Breslow's have a book on the history of cancer
control but it has not been published except as a govern-
ment document. I assume I can get that. They will be

sending me some reprints.