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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1957)
retearck xnn isoUtinq , j : if.t, I j ' VjT cal to .Wy proces, .fe'W.N fI If fllL cun transplanted cancer in animals, others partially destroy cancer in humans, ease pain, and prolong h(p A three-man tram of scientists at Tufts University has been treating a type of leukemia with a drug railed busulfan. They report they have held the disease under control (or two year, and believe this indicates it could be controlled for double or triple that time before a relapae might occur Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a one -two punch against cancer that first stops its growth and then increases the body's own powers to reduce it The proce dure Is to administer chemicals which deliver a paralyzing blow to the dis ease, then the patient's normal re cuperative powers do the rest As the second part of the one-two punch, the Rutgers researchers are testing special diets. They believe that amino acids, hormones, and other types of nutritional therapy will in crease the amount of tumor regression caused by the drugs. At the University of Illinois College of Medicine, scientists headed by Dr Warren H Cole combine surgical techniques with chemicals to protect cancer patients from spillage of dead ly cancer cells during an operation All blood vessels serving the opera -live areas are tied off early during the operation to prevent cancer cells from moving elsewhere through the body Immediately after the opera tion, nitrogen mustard and Thio TXPA iirMTr - killing chemicals are injected into the surgical cavity and veins The areas are bathed with drugs capable of tracing and killing any cancer cells which might have spilled over Finally, on each of three days following surgery, more drugs are injected into the veins to destroy cancer which might have escaped At Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr Daniel M Shapiro and Dr Morton M Klmgerman have destroyed malig nancies in mice with x-rays and chem icals. The Sloan -Kettering Institute for Cancer Research reports success with antibiotics One of them, called DON. has prolonged the Uvea of mice suffering leukemia from SO to 120 per cent longer than any other such drug 1 norma exciting and promising ' cancer weapon Is viruses "The time has come when research should assume that viruses are responsible for most, if not all. kinds of cancer " says Dr Wendell M Stanley of the University of California "Polio viruses sre capable of de stroying cancer cells in test tubes," according to Dr George Gye of Johns Hopkins University And at a recent meeting in Houston, polio viruses were discussed as a cancer preventive The first successful vaccination against cancer has been reported by Dr B R Burmester of the U S Agriculture Department The vaccine was used against forms of leukemia in chickens, and was prepared in the same manner as the Salk polio vaccine and other "killed-virus" vaccines Mother hens were given an injec tion to raise their level of cancer- fighting antibodies. The hens, in turn, passed on these antibodies through their eggs to their unborn chscks. The protected chicks were S.0O0 tunes more resistant to leukemia virus than were unprotected ones' At the Ohio Penitentiary in Colum bus, human cancer cell were trans planted to 14 cancer-free convict vol unteers. Similar transplants had pre viously grown well in patients already suffering from cancer But in the healthy convicts, the cancer cells evoked vigorous, inAammatory re actions and were promptly rejected "This confirms the long -suspected existence of a cancer-immune me chanism in normal human cells." explained Dr Cornelius P Raoads, director of Sloan - Kettering Institute "When the mechanism that rejects the cancerous cells is finally identified. It could lead to a chemical cure " Reports from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Minn, tell of the partial destruction of bone cancer in animals by ultrasonic energy. This force con sists of sound waves too high in fre quency to be beard by the human ear Fissionable cobalt also is being used as a source of high -voltage radi ation in the treatment of cancer It's claimed that cancers deep within the body can now receive adequate radi ation without damage to surrounding normal tissue Still another front is hormone ther apy Some types of cancer need hor mones for growth. They can be tem porarily restrained by cutting off their hormone supply or blocking them with counter -hormones. Despite sll the recent advances in the battle against cancer, many ques tions remain unanswered. But re searchers are constantly opening new avenues, and someday one will lead mankind to a substantial victory over this insatiable destroyer of human life More is known about the cancer cell today than was known about bacteria 20 years ago, when scientists stood on the threshold of the great antibiotic discoveries The conquest of cancer may be just over the horizon! V. 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