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Developing 'Happily Ever Afters'
Pediatric Cancer Progress Slow, But Steady |
| By Carla Garnett |
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Dr. Alan Wayne of NCI |
For the legion of youngsters clamoring to have
designer jeans and other high-priced trendy items, there is also
a smaller, no less vocal group pushing on behalf of kids for other
expensive, but much more crucial, tailor-made products — designer
drugs. It's the growing trend toward individualized medicine — no
more evident than in research on childhood cancers — that
presents both promise and problems in efforts against the disease,
according to scientists at an Apr. 26 NCI/Children's Inn seminar.
"How do we get further?" asked Dr. Alan Wayne, clinical director of the Pediatric Oncology
Branch at NCI's Center for Cancer Research. "As with any big complex problem in our complex
society, we do it in a multifaceted, collaborative way. More and more it takes collaboration
from government, private industry, philanthropic organizations and regulatory bodies like the
FDA, as well as altruism, voices in the media and grassroots efforts — basically it takes
everybody working together with common goals."
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| Haase To Discuss AIDS Virus in Hill Memorial
Lecture, May 26 |
HIV reputedly causes a chronic infection that
can fester for years before it manifests itself in the form of
AIDS-related symptoms. But according to Dr. Ashley T. Haase — a
leading investigator in the pathogenesis of HIV and other slow-progressing
retroviruses called lentiviruses — this perception belies
an intensely fast-paced series of events that take place during
the first few weeks following transmission. These events — including
a brief window during which the virus is at its most vulnerable — will
be the focus of his discussion as he gives the NIAID James C. Hill
Memorial Lecture on Thursday, May 26, at 2 p.m. in Lipsett Amphitheater,
Bldg. 10. The lecture is titled "The Critically Important Fast
Phase of the Slow Infections Caused by Immunodeficiency Viruses."
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