![]() ![]() And while I knew that many drugs could and did come from natural products - Oncovin, one of the drugs in MOPP, in fact, had been derived from the periwinkle plant - I didn’t usually have the raw material dumped on my desk. ![]() Chemotherapy, once highly reviled, would become accepted as a viable treatment by many oncologists. My paper showing that we could cure an advanced cancer in adults, Hodgkin’s disease, with a combination chemotherapy regimen called MOPP had just been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. I was then head of the Solid Tumor Service at the National Cancer Institute, part of an ambitious program to prove to skeptical physicians that cancer could be managed - even defeated - by new combinations of chemical compounds known as chemotherapy. ![]() In this installment, Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn shares a story from an early draft of her 2015 book “The Death of Cancer,” as told to her by her father, the oncologist and chemotherapy pioneer, Vincent DeVita, Jr. WHAT I LEFT OUT is a recurring feature in which book authors are invited to share anecdotes and narratives that, for whatever reason, did not make it into their final manuscripts. ![]()
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