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is name is Vainutis K.
Vaitkevicius. In the med-
ical community, howev-
er, everybody knows the
native of Lithuania as Dr. V.
He's also regarded as one of the
world's finest clinical oncolo-
gists.
During the early years of his
life, Dr. V. was surrounded by
death and destruction. Since
then, he has devoted himself to
healing, and those efforts will
soon be recognized by Israel's
Bar-Ilan University.
Dr. V., president of the Michi-
gan Cancer Foundation (MCF),
has been named Scientist of the
Year by Bar-Ilan's Cancer,
AIDS and Immunology Re-
search Institute. It's rare for a
gentile to win the award, but
Bar-Ilan officials were im-
pressed with Dr. V.'s creden-
tials.
"I'm grateful and very hum-
ble," said Dr. V., who is
Catholic. "Mainly, I appreciate
the fact that the people at Bar-
Ilan are concerned about what
we're doing in my field."
Dr. V., 67, will receive the
honor in ceremonies on the uni-
versity's campus in Ramat-Gan

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and treatment, Dr. V. is a won-
derful humanitarian and he's a
devoted teacher," said Paul
Zlotoff, president of Detroit
Friends of Bar-Ilan University.
Dr. V. has done pioneer work
in function-preserving surgery
for esophagus, rectal and anal
cancers, and he's credited with
establishing the MCF-Prentis
Comprehesive Cancer Center.
The facility is a partnership
between the MCF, Wayne State

"I'm grateful
and
very humble."

University and the Detroit
Medical Center and is regard-
ed as one of the leading cancer
treatment centers in the Unit-
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Dr. V. has been a professor
in the Wayne State School of
Medicine since 1962. In 1989,
he retired as both chairman of
the department of internal
medicine at Wayne State and
chief of medicine for Harper-
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on April 10. He left for Israel
April 4 and will return April 12.
It's Dr. V.'s second trip to the
area; he remembers touring
Haifa and Jerusalem with his
father just before World War II.
"Beyond his enormous con-
tributions in cancer research

Medical Center.
A resident of Pleasant
Ridge for nearly 30 years, Dr.
V. and his wife, Ingeborg, have
six children and nine grand-
children. They've been married
since 1951, the same year
Dr. V. graduated from medical

school in Frankfort.
It was a journey filled with
tragedy that led Dr. V. to
Frankfort.
When he was a teen-ager,
Dr. V. watched as his parents
and two brothers were sent to
Siberia by Lithuania's Russian
occupiers. They were among
200,000 Lithuanians taken
there as political prisoners. Dr.
V.'s father died in Siberia; he
didn't see his other family mem-
bers for years.
In 1944, Dr. V.'s grandfather
was arrested by the Nazis for
hiding two Jewish children. He
was sent to a nearby prison,
where he was executed. The
children died in a death camp.
Dr. V. was taken to a labor
camp in Germany. While there,
he severely injured a finger in
a machine accident at a Nazi
munitions factory, ending his
dream of becoming a profes-
sional pianist.
When the war ended, Dr. V.
went to the American zone in
Frankfort to study internal
medicine. He did his internship
at Grace Hospital before serv-
ing as a first lieutenant in the
U.S. Army during the Korean
War.
"I lived with my
grandfather and my
materal aunt on a
farm after my par-
ents were sent away,
and they were the
main reasons why I
turned to medicine,"
he said. "Both were
physicians. My aunt
is 90, and she
stopped practicing
only three years ago."
Dr. V. doesn't
think cures for most
forms of cancer will
be discovered soon,
but he can't rule out
that it might happen
during his grand-
children's lifetime.
"During the last
decade, genetic stud-
ies have helped us
recognize early
symptoms," he said.
"We're detecting
what's happening in
cells before the can-
cer begins.
"The problem is for every ad-
vance we make, people's habits
set us back. Things like smok-
ing, overeating, a lack of exer-
cise and exposure to certain
chemicals have been shown to
have connections to cancer." I=1