FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY
U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH

 

™<"IONAL CANCER INSTITUTE BETHESDA 14, MD.

. fer to: NC=RB-BS December 17, 1951

AIR MAIL
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Dr. Joshua Lederberg /

University of Wisconsin
Department of Agriculture
Madison 6, Wisconsin

Dear Doctor Lederberg:

Your kind letter of December 12 was most
welcome, We are delighted you will be able to parti-
ci pate in the program.

As stated in my first letter to you, the
informal invitation was late, and I feared a reaction
such as yourSe

I have written to Dr. Brewster S. Miller of
the American Cancer Society and have informed him of
your final decisions

You will be informed immediately as soon as fo
the program for the day is definite. /

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It will not be necessary for you te refer to Ce
the cancer problem, because as indicated in your letter, \
it will be the duty of the oncologists to recognize the
possibilities arising from your work. Any oncologist who
is unable to do so should, I believe, leave the field im-
mediately.

It may interest you to know that Dr. C. Ce
Little will occupy the chair for this meeting, and I
am sure that he will be able to interpret the importance
of your work fvom the standpoint of its bearing on the
tumor problem,

Most sincerely yours,

He B. Andervent