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CALIFORNIA B7 LOSANGELESTIMES r. George E. Moore the cancer researcher who was among the first to link chewing tobacco to mouth cancer and who built the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., into a major cancer research center, died May 19 in Conifer, Colo. He was 88. The cause of death was bladder cancer, according to his family.

Moore also discovered the use of fluorescent and radioactive materials to diagnose and localize brain tumors, was a pioneer in the use of chemotherapy to treat breast cancer, and developed techniques for growing tumor cells in a laboratory. When Moore did his first studies of tobacco chewing in the 1950s, there was little strong evidence linking smoking and lung cancer and virtually none tying tobacco to other cancers. In a seminal 1954 paper, Moore and colleagues from Roswell Parkand the University of Minnesota reported on 40 men who suffered from oral cancer. They found that 26 of them had chewed tobacco, most for 15 years or longer. The paper presented the first evidence that chewing tobacco could be as lethal as smoking it.

Extending their studies, they also found that many people who chewed but did not yet have mouth cancer had gum irritation and leukopla- sia white spots or patches on the interior of the mouth that are often a forerunner of cancer. His discoveries put Moore on the leading edge of tobacco research for more than 15 years, but it was hard work because of the efforts of tobacco companies. When he tried to procure tobacco seedlings so he could grow his own plants, for example, he was unsuccessful until the husband of awoman he had treated for breast cancer provided some. In his later life, he was pessimistic about his effort. all of our scientific things, working as hard as we did, I think we influenced smoking very he told the Denver Post.

think it became a socially accepted thing not to smoke, and that did more to change smoking habits than all of our scientific George Eugene Moore was born Feb. 22, 1920, in Minneapolis. He attended the University of Minnesota, receiving his medical degree in 1947 and a doctorate in surgery in 1950. He spent his early career at the University of Minnesota Medical School and at age 32 was named head of Roswell Park, then a struggling research institute with two aging buildings. By the time he left in 1967, the institute, now known as the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, had grown to cover seven city blocks.

was a role model for oncologists and a highly successful said Dr. Donald L. Trump, current president and chief executive of the institute. Moore left the institute when he was appointed director of public health research for the state of New York. He held the post until 1973, when he moved to Denver to join the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

He spent the rest of his career there. When Moore began his research, the primary treatment for breast cancer was surgical remov- al of the tumor. In the early 1960s, working with Dr. Rudolph Noer of the University of Louisville, Moore began supplementing surgery with the chemotherapeutic drug thiotepa. They found that the drug could prevent or delay the recurrence of tumors in many patients.

Unfortunately, it also triggered premature menopause; the drug gave way to more effective agents. But their study was among the first to show that chemotherapy could be useful in treating breast tumors. Moore also developed chemical solutions that could be used to grow tumor cells in a laboratory, refusing to patent the technique so that it could be widely used. In the basement of his Denver office were nearly 1,000 such tumor lines, some of which had been kept alive 20 to 30 years. He called them in a Moore had a variety of interests outside oncology.

He dabbled in metalworking, creating a 7-foot-tall sculpture of the cross-section of a cell that he displayed in his frontyard. He also studied the geology of Colorado and was a past president of the Colorado Mineral Society. He met his wife of 63 years, the former Lorraine P. Hammell, while hitchhiking to an airport outside Minneapolis to take flying lessons. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Allan of Acton, and Donald of Conifer; three daughters, Cathy of Tucson, Laurie of Davis, and Linda of Golden, two brothers, John of Minneapolis and Robert of San Jose; a sister, Elizabeth Severson of Minneapolis; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

thomas.maugh@latimes.com George E. Moore, 1920 2008 Doctor linked cancer to chewing tobacco By Thomas H. Maugh II Times Staff Writer Roswell Park Cancer Institute RESEARCHER When Dr. George E. Moore did his first studies of tobacco chewing in the 1950s, there was little strong evidence linking smoking and lung cancer.

enryk Mandelbaum a member of the Sonderkommando Jewish prisoners who were forced to empty the gas chambers at Auschwitz after fellow Jews were gassed and burned Tuesday. He was 85. Mandelbaum died at a hospital in the southern Polish city of Bytom several days after undergoing heart surgery, said Igor Bartosik, a historian at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum who has co-written an upcoming book on Mandelbaum. Bartosik said he did not know the exact cause of death, and hospital officials refused to comment. Mandelbaum was last surviving member of theSonderkommando, in which he was forced by the Nazis to search the body cavities of fellow Jews for valuables and pull out gold teeth and fillings after they were executed.

They then had to carry the bodies to crematoriesfor burning and when the crematorieswere filled to capacity they dug huge pits to burn the bodies. thought I was in hell. Fire and smoke were everywhere. I had to clean the gas chambers and put the bodies in the crematoria, or burn them outside when the extermination was in full swing and the crematoria were not he told reporters some time ago. Mandelbaum was forced to do the work from his arrival in Auschwitz, at age 21, on April 10, 1944, until January 1945, when the Nazis forced him and other fit inmates on a death march to flee the advancing Red Army.

He was able to escape the march and hid at a farm for several weeks. The Soviets liberated the camp Jan. 27, 1945. During his months in the camp, Mandelbaum No. 181970 witnessed the death of some of the 400,000 Jews brought in transports from Hungary in the summer of 1944, and handled their dead bodies.

saw people going into the changing rooms, he saw people changing, he saw the moment of the gassing, the throwing of the Zyklon into the gas chambers, he heard the Bartosik told the Associated Press. Mandelbaum was born Dec. 15, 1922, in the southern Polish town of Olkusz. As the oldest of four children, he went to work cutting stone in a quarry to help support the family when his business became bankrupt. He developed physical strength that helped him pass an initial selection at Auschwitz, separating those capable of work from those who were sent immediately to the gas chambers.

Bartosik said Mandelbaum spent decades trying to teach younger generations about what happened during the Holocaust. He gave guided tours of Auschwitz and spoke frequently to groups about his experience. Mandelbaum found himself in the spotlight in May 2006 when Pope Benedict XVI visited Auschwitz. In an emotionally charged event, the German-born pope prayed at the Wall of Death, where the Nazis executed thousands. There he met with 32 camp survivors, most of them Catholics; he stopped to speak to each one, and kissed Mandelbaum the only Jewish survivor in the group on both cheeks.

parents, along with a brother and sister, were killed in the Holocaust. He is survived by his wife, a son, a sister and grandchildren, Bartosik said. Henryk Mandelbaum, 1922 2008 Jew was forced to empty Auschwitz gas chambers From Times Wire Reports Andrzej Grygiel Associated Press SURVIVOR Henryk Mandelbaum spoke frequently to groups about what happened during the Holocaust and gave tours of Auschwitz. 07CL176 Source: Scarborough Release 2, 2007 To advertise in print and online, call 1.800.922.0539 Send millions of job seekers your way. Toplacean ObituaryNotice CallMs.Ryan orMs.Smith 1-800-528-4637 Ext.77241orExt.77242 Passedawayon theageof104.Shewas thelovingwifeofEli(de- erofCoralieGoldsmith (Alan)andDavidGood grandchildrenand13great- grandchildren.

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