Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 31, 1960, Image 11

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Newspaper Page Text0 O O 0 i t'l 1 1 X i n -s " t -J a r ? v. I '" i n I Mattel's of Editor's not.: This it the second sf Uiree dispatches written by Hrlena Frost of the American Can rer Society reporting, on cancer quackery. By HELENA FROST. Written for "Everybody is against me." The plaint of the cancer quack is repeated often, indi vidually and collectively. Who is the "everybody?" Generally anybody who seeks to protect the public from "cures" that can kill the early cancer patient. Specifically, the Food and Drug Adminis tration (FDA), the American Medical Association, the Na tional Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society and the Damon Runyon Fund. Sometimes one, sometimes all are in the line of fire from the rostrums of public meet ings, the bombardment of leaf leu? and pseudo-scientific mag azines, the heavy guns of lob bies in Congress and state leg islatures. Take the statement made to this reporter by Fred J. Hart, president of both the Nation al Health Federation, aud of the Electronic Medical Foun dation, whose "misbranded de vices" have been barred from interstate commerce by p court injunction. Tests Said Avoided "You would assume," said Hart, "if I had developed something, that I could go to a university with $50,000 and have it tried. No institution in' the United States exists that could do it, except those that are under the American Medical Association medical plan. And these men, who make their living by practic ing medicine or teaching it, will condemn anything that's unorthodox without testing it." j'(The Albert Abrams devic es, which were promoted by the Electronic Medical Foun dation, were tested and expos ed by the American Medical Association.) ; But listen to the facts of cancer chemotherapy, as out lined by Dr. Stuart M. Ses soms, chief of the Cancer Chemotherapy National Serv ice Center (CCNSC) in Bethes da, Md., during an interview. "Anybody can come to us to have a material checked for anti-cancer properties," said the scientist, "but he must meet our simple criteria. They aren't designed to keep any- Get more quality for your money from retailers who feature known brands .... ZrJZi T7 u : v, L a i n I n'' -Till ) il I 't - ' ' 1 CONFIDENCE BRAND NAMES SATISFACTION A o Cancer 'Cures' Crv 'Evervbodv .rsasM m il 4 J CANCER 'CURES'-Despite warnings by dis tinguished physicians, reputable medical associations and federal authorities, thous ands of sufferers from cancer and other dis eases turn each year to groups and individ uals who promise "cures." Two such devices are shown. At left is a "virilium ' spike, one from our screening pro gram, but to meet our scien tific needs. You can't just take a witch's brew and try it. "On the other hand we even explore the old folklore type of thing. We know that most of the materials that come to us are no good, but we don't know which one might be." Another of Hart's state ments was that "nobody in or ganized medicine wants to find a cancer cure." But, here are a few facts and figures about the CCNSC: About 40,000 chemical com pounds are screened yearly. In 1960 nearly $30 million will be spent on this work. About 500 clinical investi gators and several hundred biochemists and biologists are looking for what "nobody wants." The CCNSC was launched in 1955 to accelerate the search for anti-cancer drugs, a quantitative program of con trolled experiments and co ordinated results. It spreads from the center in the heart of the National Institutes of Health to all parts of the coun try and to other countries, for there are no boundaries in the Yo can buy with assurance from a retailer who features known brand because you'll get the quality you expect. Brand Names are built on your confidence. You and your neighbor dictate the standards a Brand Name product must frieet to consistently deliver the value and service you want. A respected Brand Name is a manufacturer's most valuable asset and ha spare no effort to protect it by constantly bettering bis product A Brand Name k the maker's guarantee of satisfaction doubly endorsed by the retailer who sells ft. For dependable quality and satisfaction yov do better with brand you know; ge to know those you see advertised in this newspepet To get the most for your money buy by Brand. Namt and bt turd Brand Name is a maker's reputation . o " fjl IRtffD HAMM FOUNDATION, MO, 4T FIFTH AVENUB, MED FORD MAIL TRIBUNE 72 ! ' which sold for $306 and containde, analysis showed, l200th of one per cent of barium chloride. At right is a pad supposed to con tain uranium ore, for "radiation cures." It gives off no more radiation than the lumi nous wristwatch dial in the photo-fortunate-ly for the gullible purchaser. (UP! Telephoto) common offensive against the common enemy. And there are no pressure groups. The CCNSC is jointly sponsored by federal agencies and volun tary health organizations, in cluding the National Cancer Institute, the Veteran's Ad ministration, the Food and Drug Administration, the Atomic Energy Commission, the American Cancer Society and the Damon Runyon Fund. Must Try on Animals Dr. Sessoms described the criteria for testing: "If you bring us a material, we have to know what it is -in order to reproduce it in quantity for screening. Then you must agree to our trying it first on animals - because we risk nothing on man, not even on advanced cancer cas es in the clinic, until the ma terial has come through our animal tests. We never use a material on early cases, be cause the patient must have the benefit of surgery or ra diation - they're still the only certain ways of saving life. "Of course we don't allow the proponent to take part in the testing of his material. That's as essential to impar 4' t 1 tiality as is the fact that our scientists approach the screen ing without bias, swayed by nothing but a profound need to find a cancer cure. "We listen to any informa tion we can get, but we don't let it affect our own testing of the material." Must Submit Data The same criteria have been set up by the National Cancer Institute for the testing of un orthodox remedies offered as effective treatment of cancer. When a sponsor claims the remedy is curative, he must submit detailed previous data to merit consideration. Any material that meets the requirements of the CCNSC is given the three-animal test. Dr. Sessoms calls it "the three blind mice." He elaborated: "This test is simply to find out if we have some oddity here, something a little bit different. We try the materi al on three mouse tumors: sarcoma 180, found in white Swiss mice, and carcinoma 755 and leukemia L1210, both found in hybrid mice. After it is passed through the mouse system three times, and if it has even the slightest benefi- WW TOOK T. IMfc J fx Is Attains cial effect, we give the mate rial another 25 to 50 tests against mouse tumors - to con firm results and measure the exact degree of activity." .1 '..-J.'. ,..ui.....,k. UL JllUtl- rials have dropped by the sci entific wayside. Between 4UO and 600 are left for the next step: Studies in toxicology and pharmacology on more mice and larger animals. These tests assess the toxic side ef fects and determine a safe dos age for human beings. Sufficient Quantity "If the material survives this hurdle," said Dr. Sessoms, "we must next find out if it can be produced in sufficient quantity and not too expen sively to continue screening. For now we must find a satis factory dose schedule. This en tails gradually grading up the dose, and figuring the days between doses. And only then do we come to the final step j of evaluating the material with different types of can ters, a detailed study which we can only do with materials that show the greatest promise for palliative effect." Painstaking? Yes, and reas suring to all of us, to know Staphylococcus Thrives Despite Science Assaults By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York - (UPI) - Medical science won't be astonished but you will be by the new 5 evidence ot now wen sta phloco ecus bacteria are doing despite years of as saults by the a n I i b i o tics and better and better an tiseptic tech- iicios smith niques. Sixteen months after an outbreak of staphylococcal skin disease in a hospital nur sery had been conquered and the new-born infants went home with their mothers, two scientists checked to see if there had been an aftermath. There had been, in plenty. Still Carried Bacteria Sixteen months afterward 26 infants still carried the bacteria which had been re sponsible for the outbreak. Furthermore, 12 mothers, two fathers, and 23 brothers and sisters also carried them. They had acquired them from the babies. Babies, children and adults were "carriers," with out being sick. While in the nursery, only 12 of 94 infants had had the skin disease. But after leaving the hospital, 31 more came down with it in time-bomb acterial attacks, as it were. The mothers of 16 infants ac quired staphylococcal illness, too, along with 10 fathers and 20 brothers and sisters. Drs.J Valerie Hurst and Moss Grossman of the Univer sity of California Medical Center, San Francisco, super vised this large-scale swab bing of body parts for linger ing staphylococci in order to verify the suspicion that babies may leave hospitals as carriers and for many months afterward pass their bacteria on to everyone around them. Capacity to Persist "No other micro-organism can compare with the staphy lococcus in its capacity to per sist as a parasite in individ uals or communities," re marked the authoritative med ical science journal, "The Lancet." It cited older studies that proved some people have been carriers for as long as six years. The trouble Is that many strains are now resistant to most if not all the antibiotics, particularly those strains which maintain themselves In hospitals. Staphyloccus' strength is its ability to change its chemical nature enough by mutation to live despite an antibiotic. Albany Girl, 18, Drowns in Surf Newport-TOPD - A teen-age beach party turned to tragedy in the surf near here Sunday when Judith Ann Pearl, 18, of Albany drowned despite desperate attempts of five companions to save her. Two girl companions, CarolcMarie Lewis, 16, and Sandra Sue Johnson, 18, both of Albany, were taken to Newport hospital in shock following tiie accident. Three boys in the party, William Rex Hivley, 19, and Bialph Eugene Harvey, 19, both of Denver, Colo.; and Dwayne Armstrong, 19, Der by, Colo., managed to get one of the girls to shore but could not save Miss Pearl. Earlier, the youngest girl, Carol Lewis, said the felt an undertow and mad it to HVeK. Me' beyond doubt that we are safe guarded against science-in-a-hurry. But what about the quack in a hurry to cash in? Dr. Sessoms said drily: "Vou don t cook this up overnight and have it for breakfast. From the time you begin a new material on the mice and put it into the first person in the clinic, it takes between two to two-and-a-half years." Next: The "wonderful" ma chine that could diagnose dis easei by "tuning in" on blood samples received through the mail. ASK THE MAN WHO MOWS! . i Vl ' Ititl Kini ib Pukt HI CUTS MORE GRASS IN ONE MONTH THAN YOU ARE LIKELY TO CUT IN FIVE YEARS ...AND HE CHOOSES JaCObseil Men in the add up "r"K" "J'lir $17495 Be the man who mows with Jacobsen. 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