Description: Early detection of colo-rectal cancer (such as Tip O'Neill's) would increase probability of cure dramatically. Description of symptoms & recommended exams.
Description: Press conference on carcinogenic risk of pesticide EDB in processed grain and flour products. Charts showing risk levels in parts per billion.
Description: Cancer registry tracks predominance of certain cancers by gender and helps correlate incidence with environmental conditions. Common cancers still elude treatment. Centrifuge. Deborah Prothrow-Stith.
Description: Department of Public Health study of elevated cancer rates around Pilgrim nuclear plant is still in progress. Boston Edison claims bias against them. Plymouth residents claim undue delay of findings.
Description: Theories about breast cancer link it to alcohol, smoking, or birth control pills. New study speculates about high fat diet as cause, and another explores vitamins as preventive.
Description: Ronald Reagan visits Dana-Farber Cancer Institute on behalf of Jimmy Fund. He is questioned about his many responses of “I don't recall” in videotaped testimony for Iran contra hearings.
Description: B-roll of technicians working in a lab at the Sidney Farber Cancer Institue. Lab equipment used includes: microscopes, Petri dishes, Geiger counter, fume hood. Exteriors of the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute building.