Boston Boy Declared Living Proof
Scientists Will Conquer Cancer
By DELOS SMITH
United Prt Scienc Editor
New York (U.R) A nine-year-old
Boston boy is about to enter
his seventh year of scientifically
borrowed time, which is proof
that science is going to conquer
cancer.
Six and a half years ago doc
tors said this child had at most
six months to live because he had
acute leukemia. He still has acute
leukemia, yet he is healthy and
flourishing.
It is a record. And also a
dumbfounding, seeming miracle.
But there is clear-cut cause and
effect. Science is interfering suc
cessfully with the "food" of his
cancerous cells. So he "lives
with" cancer.
Dr. Charles S. Cameron, med
ical and scientific director of the
American Cancer Society, said
science Is working out the ways
by which people some day will
liv with cancer for as long as
they would have lived without
cancer.
Prolongs Lif
He pointed to the discovery of
insulin. With insulin people live
with diabetes; without insulin
they would die of diabetes. The
Boston boy is living because of
aminopterin, a man-made chem
ical that interferes with the use
of folic acid by leukemic cells.
It is one of a whole class of
man-made chemicals, the anti
metabolities, which now number
several dozens. Science has
reached the point where it can
throw chemical monkey
wrenches into the essential
workings of some kinds of cancer
cells in some cases. But not for
keeps only for a time usually
measured in months but now
and then in a year or two or
three.
What remains to be found out
is why the anti-metabolities don't
interfere with the essential nutri
tion of some leukemic cells while
interfering effectively with the
nutrition of cells which seem to
be identical. That, and also why
all leukemic cells so far except
those in the Boston boy have
eventually "learned" how to mul
tiply and kill the patients despite
the drugs.
Leukemia Smoldering
Having advanced this far,
scientists are confident they will
solve the remaining mysteries of
cancerous cells, and most espe
cially the chemical unknowns
which are now preventing the
antimetabolites from being the
weapons with which to conquer
acute leukemia.
Dr. Sidney Farber, a leading
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New York Former President Truman on his 1948 campaign
remark that any farmer who voted for a Republican should have
his head examined:
"I said that in 1948 and in 1952. And now some of them are
having their heads examined."
Orlando, Fla. Sen. Estes Kefauver on the Supreme court de
cision to desegregate public schools:
"It's ridiculous to say that a Supreme court decision is uncon
stitutional ... some may disagree with the court's interpretation
but we know that the court is the final word. Speaking as a South
erner to Southerners, I say that there is no other answer to this
problem. We simply must remain a united nation."
New York Alfred P. Sloan Jr., who resigned as General
Motors board chairman, on the principles of the firm's growth:
"Get the facts. Recognize the equities of all concerned. Realize
the necessity of doing a better job every day. Keep an open mind
and work hard. The last is the most important of all. There is no
shortcut."
Seattle, Wash. Passenger Nelson Whalsirom on the ditching
of a Northwest Airlines Stratocruiser in Puget Sound with 37
aboard:
"The tail was whipping back and forth like a salmon swimming
upstream."
Mount Kisco, N.Y. Showman Billy Rose on the fire which de
stroyed hjs world famous paintings and 28-room mansion:
"If I had a sense of humor right now, I might be able to chuckle
over what they saved from the kitchen. They brought out a bread
toaster and some dishes." v
Copco's Link River Dam Pad Approved
Klamath Falls (U.R) John
C. Bolye, vice-president and gen
eral manager of the California
Oregon Power Company, an
nounced here yesterday that the
public utilities commissions of
California and Oregon approved
the company's contract for oper
ation of the Link r.iver dam for
another 50 years.
Boyle said the contract was
approved March 27 and will be
come effective on April 16 of
this year.
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leukemia specialist and the
physician of the Boston boy, said
his p a t i e n t's leukemia was
smoldering." Aminopterin hadn't
put out the fire it was only
preventing it from bursting again
into flames.
Meanwhile, the boy has had a
normal growth and development
and to the eye is indistinguish
able from other children of his
age. But no one can know how
much longer aminopterin will
hold his disease in check. '
April is "cancer month"
when the American Cancer
Society makes its annual appeal
to the public for financial
support.
As We Live By ELIZABETH HURIOCK. PH.D.
Youthful Romances Often
Have Limited Duration
People's feelings change as
they grow older and they should
expect this:
(Q) "I am 22 years old and
faced with a problem that both
ers
me very
much. I hope
you can help
me solve it.
Ever since I
was in high
school, I
thought I was
in love with
Bob and he
said he was in
B. Huzlock love with me.
After we graduated, I took a job
and he went to college. We
started to drift apart though I
only went to parties, never dated
another boy alone. Now Bob is
in the service and, while he has
never said so, I can iell from
his actions that he is no longer
in love with me but doesn't want
to say so for fear of hurting my
feelings. I have met a wonder
ful man, slightly older than I,
a widower with two small chil
dren. He works where I do and
I see him daily, though I have
never accepted his invitation for
dates-1 am convinced that he is
the man I want to marry, not
Bob. My' parents tell me I am
letting Bob down, and my friends
feel that I am being untrue to
Bob by showing interest in an
other man. They all make me
feel like a perfect heel. Am I
being unfair to Bob?" S.B.
(A) As you have presented the
facts, it would seem to me that
Tuesday, April 3, 1956
MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
you would be far more unfair to
Bob by trying to hold on to him
than you would be to tell him
you realize that you have out
grown each other. You seem to
feel that he might welcome such
news from you, so why not tell
him when you next see him?
A youthful romance often
ends as yours is ending. You
have no reason to feel guilty
about it or to reproach yourself.
After all, it would seem that
Bob is more to blame for the
ending than you, so if anyone is
to feel guilty it should be he,
not you.
May Shock Them
As for your family and friends,
why not merely ' tell them that
you will tell Bob, namely, that
you and he have outgrown each
other. It may shock them at
first, if they have taken it for
granted all these years that you
would eventually marry Bob.
But when they see that you
have found someone else you pre
fer, and Bob will doubtless do
the same when you set him free
from any understanding you may
have, then they will forget about
their reproaches and realize that
you are acting wisely and re
joice with you.
(Copyright 1956.
General Features Corp.)
Oregon Deans of Women
Set Saturday Meeting
Portland (U.R) The Ore
gon Associated Deans of Women
will hold their spring meeting
on the Lewis and Clark college
campus here Saturday.
Portland fij.R) TboueawSs
of Oregon residents spent Sun
day on the banks of the Sandy
river as the big smelt run final
ly reached the stream in force.
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