«12 - OFFICIAL USE ONLY aeeenren: aa areares Dr. Warren brought out that the public in general expects the AEC to be exploring what heavy levels of radiation and specific isotopes can accomplish in the cancer field. Dr. Cantril interjected at this point to say that "if the layman would ask wnat has this two and one-half million appropriation per year accomplished this year and what has it done last year and will it do next year to significantly cut the cancer mortality for 1955 and 1956, I think we would be hard put to say that there has been any Signiticant decrease in cancer mortality as a result of funds expended by the AEC to date." Dr. Warren said that nearly any form of biological research can ultimately help on the cancer problem. Dr. Burnett reiterated his previous statement that "we might have been better off if we had put more money into basic research and less at the higher level," Dr. Warren pointed out that a great deal has been accomplished by this dircctly applied work in the saving of funds to individual institutions, He believed that it was "quite properly the function of the ANC to see what the value of these new techniques are, so that, the hospital at Tulane or St. Louis does not have to put in a series of these units simply because it has become possible from the physical standpoint." OFFICIAL USE ONLY me ee ke