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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 5. 1861
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Proper conduct
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Drugs Give Susbtantial Aid
To Some Cancer Patients
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' Editor's note: Thli Is the last of
three dispatches written for UPI
by Dr. John W. Cllne, president
of the American Cancer Society, In
conjunction with the annual Na
tional Cancer Cusade during April.
' In it he discusses the role of drugs
'In treating cancer.
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By JOHN W. CLINE, VL.D.
President.
American Cancer Society
(Written for UPI) .
For many centuries, witches,
medicine men, faith' healers,
physicians and scientists have
sought a "magic bullet" which
would cure cancer. '.
To" this day, they have not
succeeded in producing a drug
which will cure the- disease.
The cancer patient's only hope
for cure still resides in sur-i
gery or radiation while the
cancer is still contained and
operable.- r ; -
Nevertheless, over the years,
and more particularly in the
last' decade or so,' drugs have
provided substantial help to
an increasing number of pa
tients. In some cases, healing
has been so dramatic- as to
persuade both the patient and
the physician that a cure may
have been achieved; Unhap
pily, so far, drug-induced im
provement has lasted for only
a few months or, at best, a few
years.-- -. .' -----
Gland Removal .A" '
In some kinds of cancer
notably of the breast and nros-
tate the removal of glands
and administrationof sex hor
mones Often restore a substan
tial measure of comfort and
health. .These have become
routine procedures in certain
cases. ' . .
Cortisone-like hormones, and
a large number of other drugs
-some of the latter resembling
a war gas, nitrogen mustard,
with effects on tumors sim
ilar to those of x-rays, and
drugs which block the can
cer cell's use of folic acid
have proved of great benefit
to leukemia patients. There
are few patients with leuke
mia today who cannot get
some help from one or anoth
er of these drugs.'
The most remarkable re
sults of chemotherapy are be
ing obtained in an extremely
rare type of female cancer,
choricarcinoma. Methotrexate,
which blocks folic -acid used
by cancer cells, gives great
help,' lasting more than five
years in a few cases, to pa
tients with this disease. " .
. Another . promising aspect
of cancer chemotherapy re
search is the finding that
some breast cancer patients
seem to stand a better chance
of surviving their disease if
they are treated with certain
drugs at the time of and just'
after their operations.
Whether the results will
prove as favorable in patients
with cancers of other' sites is
yet to be seen. The results of
combination treatment sur
gery plus drugs-in cancer of
the colon have been disap
pointing in the past, but some
treatments, still in the exper
imental stage, seem to be
more successful.
- Thousands of drugs are now
being tested each year against
transplantable cancers in lab
oratory animals and against
cancers grown in laboratory
dishes. More than 100 of these
show such promise that they
are used against a variety of
experimental cancers; and, of
these, a dozen or more are
being given cautiously to pa
tients. . .
In this manner, our arma
mentarium of , anti - cancer
drugs is being built up. Al
most all qancer patients can
be given some help, however
temporary, in even ;the late
stages of their disease.
Trial and-Error j
. Some of the drugs are de
rived almqst by trial; and er
ror methods of searching.
These include antibiotics-such
as actinomycins - which are
produced by molds and bac
teria. Several of them have
helped a few patients, k
ACTRESS GETS DIVORCE
New YorK (UPD Red-haired
model and actress Suzy Par
ker has obtained a divorce
from her French husband to
whom she was married in se
crecy two years ago, it was
disclosed Tuesda y. Paul
O'Dwyer, attorney fo'r Miss
Parker, said - she divorced
Pierre de Aa Salle, 34, on
March 21, on grounds of in
compatibility and received
custody of their daughter,
Georgia Bejle, 16 months.
' Most of the new prepara
tions, however, are ingenious
ly designed molecules delib
erately contrived to block the
chemistry of the cancer cell.
This approach to "molecular
medicine has been made pos
sible by the remarkable
strides being made in bio
chemistry. These efforts are
still in their infancy.- As more
is learned about the chemistry
of normal ' cells and cancer
cells, we can expect a more
effective attack on the latter.
. Considering that intensive
and extensive studies in the
chemotherapy of cancer have
been conducted for only a doz
en years or so, progress has
been satisfactory.
Two problems continue to
plajue the field of cancer
chemotherapy. One is drug le
slstance; the other drug toxici
ty. While a large number of
excellent anti-cancer drugs
are available for clinical use,
eventually the patient fails to
respond in the positive way he
did at the beginning of treat
ment. This resistance is poor
ly understood and cannot be
circumvented at present. This
problem is subject to very ac
tive research.
Experimental chemotherapy
of cancer has played a signif
icant part in the new fron
tiers of medical science.
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Small Worlds
Around Us
' By Lynn M. Watkins
(Register and Tribune Syndicate.
. Mil)
Knee High To A Grasshopper .
Homely As A Hedge Fence ...
What a terrible handicap
for such a little fellow, for he
was frequently described by
many of those who saw him to
be "about knee-high to a
grasshopper and as homely
as a hedge fence."
Peculiarly enough, this fig
ure of speech acquainted any
one that heard it with a pret
ty adequate picture of a very
small boy with freckles, un
ruly hair and perhaps an up
turned nose. - . .
It's difficult to understand
why a hedgefence should al
ways be homely; it must have,
been a line of shrubs or trees
Misunderstanding
About Incidence
Of Rabies Told
Salem-WTD-There is a great
d e a 1 of misunderstanding
about the incidence of rabies
in Oregon, according to Dr.
G. M. Johnson, assistant state
veterinarian.:
In an article in Agriculture
Bulletin, an official publica
tion of the State Agriculture
Department, Dr. Johnson clar
ified what he termed ''general
statewide confusion."
He said in October, 1960,
one dog in Curry county was
found to be rabid. As a result
of the findings more than 2,
000 dogs and cats were vac
cinated. '
No cases of rabies have
been reported from that area
to the present, he said.
He stated, however, that
there seems to be an- "alarm
ing increase in the number of
rabid bats reported." r
He said the public usually
confuses rabies with other dis
ease or symptoms of diseases.
"An ill-tempered dog is
quite frequently regarded
rabid. A dog with convul
sions, fits or epilepsy is quite
often erroneously referred to
as a 'mad dog'," he said.
He said more public infor
mation is needed about the
disease.
Rabies clinics have been set
up in Lane and Benton coun
ties following findings of rab
ies in foxes in those areas.
of any species planted in such
a manner as to become a bar
rier or to mark a boundary
line or fence off an area. It
may have beer' unsightly and
unkept, but hardly could it be
considered ugly.
But strangely enough, these
figures of speech were pretty
revealing, even if the implica
tion of exaggeration was glar
ingly evident; they really had
more significance than some
of the other typical Ameri
canisms such as "nervous as a
cat," or "mad as a wet hen.
These came about probably
Decause the cat's natural
quickness was attributed to
nervousness; but rapidity of
movement, and a smooth flu
idity of body movement
characteristic of all members
of the feline family.
The domestic hen, on the
otner nana, really does despise
water in anything larger than
a drinkable amount, so she
would undoubtedly become
angry if she were wet, so there
in some sense to this expres
sion. . .
There are some sections of
our country where the knee-
high to a grasshopper business
can become a little derogative
by saying, "he was knee-high
to a polecat and lower than a
periwinkle. " And there are at
least two very dissimilar
forms of living things com
monly, known as "periwin
kles." There is a mollusk called a
"periwinkle" that has-about
forsaken the sea and crawled
up in trees and weeds that
edge the oceans, and there
they live, - within sight and
sound of the tide and the surf
but safely above it. In some
parts of the world the shell
named "periwinkle" is gath
ered and eaten as human food.
Another periwinkle, is
simple wild flower, with five
white, pink, or red petals, but
to be "lower than a periwin
kle" must mean the mollusk
that lives by the sea, which
certainly isn't as low as some
of the other shell creatures
perhaps being about "knee
high to an oyster."
Dallas, Tex.-WPD-Mrs. O. C
Wilkinson told police there
was something fishy happen
ing around her house Tues
day. And there was. Some
body tossed 10 ripe fish on
her front lawn.
SELF-CONFIDENCE UN DERMINED
Elmo Roper Beats Dr. Gallup
With Opinion Ballot for Dick West
By DICK WEST
Washington (UPI) I am one
of the apparently few Amer
icans who have never been
polled by Dr.
Gallup, and I
was beginning
to get a com-,
plex about it.
You know
how it is when
you feel left
out of things.
It sort of un
dermines your
self c o n f i-
dence. It -was, therefore, re
assuring to get through the
mail this week a questionnaire
prepared by Elmo Roper, one
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of Gallup's arch rivals in the
opinion sampling field.
"At least," I said to myself,
"someone sems to care what
I think."
Moreover, Roper's poll is
more than just a cross-section
of public opinion. It was de
scribed as "a survey of 3,000
American leaders." When I
read that, it made my heart
sing. ... -
Not Included p
Later, however, I found
out that I wasn't included
in the select 3,000. An accom
panying letter explained that
extra copies were being mail
ed to a bunch of newspaper
men. Nevertheless, my spirits
were uplifted by a chance to
participate in a poll on any
basis, and I have done . my
best to justify Roper's con
fidence in me.
In this poll, the pollees are
supposed to predict, or guess,
what domestic and world con
ditions will be like four years
from now. The results will
be buried in a "time capsule,"
which will not be opened un
til 1965.
Then we will see how
wrong we were.
DID YOU KNOW?
Cleveland, Ohlo-flJPD-Among
the questions T. Keith Glen
nan, former National Aero
nautics and Space Adminis
tration director, received dur
ing an appearance here was
one asking: "Did you know
you were the grandfather of
a new baby boy?" That was
now the news was broken to
Glennan that his daughter,
Mrs. Frank R. Borchert Jr.,
was a mother. '
Among other things, Roper
wants to know who will win
the 1964 U.S. presidential
election and whether man will
have reached the moon by
1965.
The answers to ,both of
these questions are more or
less obvious. A harder ques
tion would be: Who, in 1965,
will be president of the moon?
Sampla Answers
I wouldn't want to take the
element of suspense out of the
poll by revealing all of my
answers in advance. I will,
however, paraphrase a few of
the questions and list my re
sponse to them.
' By doing so, I may enable
some other un-polled citizen
to share vicariously in the
thrill of being quized by Elmo
Roper.
Q. It now takes about one
hour to drive from midtown
New York ' to Idlewild Air
port? What will be the driv
ing time in 1965? ,
A. Zero. At the rate New
York is growing, by 1965 the
airport will be in midtown.
Q. The flying time by com
mercial : jet liner between
New York and Washington is
now about one hour. What
will be the flying time in
1965? " -
A. This also will be cut to
zero. By 1965, a jet leaving
Washington will reach New
York before it ever gets off
the runway.
Q. The present record for
the 100-yard dash is 9.3 sec
onds. What will the record be
in 1965?
A. By 1965, this question
will be academic. What will
matter then is how long It
takes to,run from Washington
to New York.
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