The Seventeenth Annual Interdisciplinary Cancer Research workshop was
held at the University of New Orleans on March 4, 1994. It was again s
ponsored by the Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans, a United Wa
y Agency. As all the previous workshops in this highly successful seri
es, it was organized by Peter Politzer (University of New Orleans), wi
th the assistance of Anita H. Buckel (University of New Orleans) and J
ames R. Jeter (Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans). The
three invited speakers were Robert J. Coffey (Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN), Suzanne A. W. Fuqua (University of Texas Health Scienc
e Center, San Antonio, TX), and Frank M. Torti (Bowman Gray School of
Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC). A one-hour discu
ssion period in the afternoon presented ample apportunity for an excha
nge of ideas and research findings among the speakers and the workshop
participants. James R. Jeter served as the moderator of this lively d
iscussion session.