Arizona sun., 1961-07-06
Memorial Hospital Is
Selected As Site OF
Southwest Cancer Study

rial Hospital here today announced
establishment of the Southwest
Cancer Institute to provide physi-
clans with the most comprehensive
modern facilities within 5O0-mile
radius for diagnosis and treatment
of maIignancies by all known anG
approved methods.
The decision of M e m o r a Is
trustees to establish the Institute
conceded with selection of Memo
rial as one of 20 hospitals in the
western states. and 30 in the ma
ton, to take part in the National
Cancer institute e'S nationwide
screening of more than $50 cheml-
cal compounds for effectiveness
in treating the many forms OF this
deadlieSt of all diseases.
The Institute will occupy a COM
plete 50-bed wing of the 270-bed
general hospital. Memorial is ln-
vesting upwards of $125,O0O in re-
modelling the wing and installing
newly developed nuclear-energy
devices, perfusion equipment, and
Instrumentation for cancer dag
nosis and therapy, including super
voltage treatment by means OF
radioactive Cobalt 60.
The new Southwest Cancer ln-
stitute will be under the direction
of DR.. Howard w. Kimball, M. D.,
F.A.C.S., chief of surgery at Me
mortal. with. Emmett Mclaughlin,
mortal superintendent, III
charge of administration, and 9th
er members of the hospitals med
ical staff in charge Of the function
al divisions of the organization.
In his public announcement o t
the Institutes establishment, DR..
Kinball said that the new isotope
laboratory and cobalt 60 device
are expected to be in operation by
August 1, with the chemO-therapy
division scheduled to follow on Sep
tember 1.
"It will be our objective" DR..
Kimball declared, to provide the
most complete armamentarium for
diagnosis and treatment of cancer
in any privately operated non-prof-
it public institution anywhere III
the southwest"
Announcement of formation OF
the Institute as an integral part
OF Memorial Hospital went out
this week to all Arizona physicians
affiliated with state and county
medical societies. Later announce
ment will follow to physicians In
Nevada, Utah and New Mexico,
and in the Mexican states OF So
nora, Jalisco, Nyarit, and Sinaloa.
Overall supervision of the lnstl-
tute will be vested in medical
members of a TumOr Board ap-
proved by the American College OF
Surgeons. The Tunor Board will
check diagnostic findings and ap-
prove therapeutic and surgical
procedures recommended by patti
ents' personal physicians or con-
sultation ''teams,' provided by the
Institute and hospital staff In specl-
ally referred cases.
Memorial has been operation the
only ACS-approved Cancer dag
nostic Detection Center in any pub
lie hospital in Arizona for the past
Is years. This twice-weekly clinic
will be put on a five-day schedule
by the Institute to permit more
rapid diagnosis and treatment of
referred cases, and additional
special training for doctors in dag
noSiS and therapy procedures.
Under the Tumor Board, the four
functional sections of the Institute
will be concerned with pathology
Investigation of the nature, pos
sibIe cause, extent, progress and
effects of the various forms of the
disease; radiolOgy (x-ray and
deep cobalt-ray supervoltage ther-
apy with the newest type OF
nuclear quipm n t.; chemo-
therapy employment of clinically
tested and effective chemical corn
pounds and others being tested
under screening procedures set up
by the National Cancer Institute);
and surgery.
The Pathology section, directed