Major battlefield in war on cancer.

The article looks at the major role played by the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in upstate New York in cancer research. The institute is the oldest cancer institute in the U.S. and has an operating budget of 18.7-million U.S. dollars in 1967. Doctor George E. Moore became its new director and has worked closely with the New York State Department of Health. Moore cites the search for a means to boost the body's normal defense as a way to defeat cancer.