The Seaforth News, 1961-05-11, Page 2Miracle Of Spontaneous Regress:on
Studied In Search For Cancer Cure
(E.DITOli'S NOTE: This is the
second of a four-part series on
"The Fourth Front ,Against Can-
cer.", In this article written at
the request of the American
Cancer Society, a distinguished
scientist describes Spontaneous
Repression.)
By DR. WARREN 11, COLE
Professor of Surgery,. University
of Illinois College of Medicine
(Written for Newspaper
Enterprise Assn.)
CHICAGO, Ill. — (NBA) — A
few doctors have witnessed and
reported the melt awesome and
mysterious event in medical
practice -a spontaneous regres-
sion of cancer,
In spontaneous regression, a
patient with cancer, which some-
times has spread beyond medi-
cine's ability to cure or control
it, suddenly will become comple-
tely well, All evidence of cancer
will disappear, The patient may
live many years without recur-
rence of the cancer and die of
an entirely unrelated cause.
Most, however, have a recur-
rence after months or years of
good health.
, Dr. Tilden C. Everson and 1
have spent five years studying
the world medical literature,'
corresponding with scientists and
doctors and reviewing the slides
to make certain each case was
indeed cancer.
We have verified to our sat-
isfaction 119 cases of spontane-
ous regression since the year
1900. Considering the millions
who have died of cancer during
that time, 119 cases are not very
many.
No patient should depend on
or hope for spontaneous regres-
sion to cure his cancer,
Nevertheless, that this pre-
nomenon—or miracle, if you will
—takes place at all persuades us
that new and effective methods
of curing cancer are possible.
Perhaps all we have to do is find
$ut how nature did it in these
119 cases.
Theonost frequent spontaneous
regressions occur in nerve tissue
tumors called neuroblastoma.
Next to leukemia, this is the
• commonest kind of cancer in
youngsters. If children can live
with these tumors 14 months or
longer, they stand almost a one -
in -three chance of having a spon-
taneous regression. It may be
that the hormone changes of
early childhood enhance resis-
tance.
The most common spontaneous
regressions in adults occur in
cancers of the kidney, of the
chorion (a bit of the fetal cov-
ering which is left in the womb
following delivery) and in mela-
noma, or "black cancer," of the
skin and other tissues.
Spontaneous remissions are
also recorded for 'cancers of the
breast, bladder, bone, uterus, col-
on, rectum, stomach, ovary,
lymphatic tissue, thyroid, lung
and a few other sites.
Sometimes, following removal
or even partial removal of the
original tumor, cancer colonies
throughout the body disappear.
It is as though the original
tumor produces something which
ties the hands of the body's im-
munity machinery. Or as though
the body's defenses against the
rapidly growing cancer are over-
whelmed until the original tu-
mor is clone away with.
Have you noticed how every-
thing is up these days?—space-
men, the stock market, national
debt, interest rates, and the
Jones family (the tribe that
neighbors attempt to keep up
with.) And with these spring
days the grass is trying to jump
a little higher.
•In some cases, the cancer -dis-
appears following an acute infec-
tion which in some manner mob-
ilizes all the body's natural de-
fenses.
On the basis of these observa-
tions, we felt that if the body's
defenses could be helped . along
by artificial means, they might
be able to overcome cancer.
We undertook an experiment
in which half the advanced
breast cancer patients, randomly
selected, were given convention-
al surgery, while the other half
were given conventional surgery
plus a cancer -killing dreg, nitr-
ogen mustard, during and fol
lowing their operation.
Now, five years after starting
the procedure, we find that less
than half as many patients have
died in the group given surgery
plus the drug as in the group of
patients who were given surgery
only. It may be that surgery
and drugs get rid of most of the
cancer, and the body's defenses
are able to do the rest of the job,
We do not know yet how
many more patients actually
have been cured by this method
than by surgery alone.
Even better results have been
achieved on breast cancer using
surgery plus another drug called
TSPA or Thio-Tepa. A report at
last year's annual meeting of the
American College of Surgeons
said:
"At present there is a strong
indication that , . , Thio-Tepa
significantly decreases the prob-
ability of recurrence, Of the pre-
menopausal patients who had re-
ceived this therapy, 95 per cent
showed no recurrence 26 months
postoperatively, compared with
46 per cent for the controls.
Cancer free rates for postmen-
nopausal patients are 89 per cent
for those receiving the drug,
compared with 86 per cent for
the controls."
If these results continue to
stand up, the combination of
drugs plus surgery may reduce
substantially the number of wo-
men (now about 23,000 a year in
the United States) who die of
breast cancer.
Comparable results have not
been achieved so far in cancers
of any other site.
Back around the turn of the
century, Dr. W, B. Coley report-
ed that a sizable number of can-
cer patients who developed ery-
sipelas (a severe and dangerous
inflemmmatory infection) h a d
shown dramatic spontaneous re-
missions of their cancers.
Erysipelas is almost extinct in
the United States. But for many
years scientists have been isolat-
ing various toxic fractions of
bacteria and testing them for
anti-cancer effect on laboratory
animals.
In one laboratory, one bacteri-
al toxin has cured about one-
third of mice with transplanted
cancers. But curative doses have
to be high, and for every mouse
cured another mouse dies of
drug toxicity.
Bacterial toxins during the
last decade have been used cau-
tiously on a few cancer patients.
They do not oure human cancer.
In a few cases they have given
a passing remission. Strong doses
are risky.
Scientists have tried—and so
far in vain—to separate the poi-
sonous components from the
therapeutic parts of the toxins,
Perhaps the toxic and the ther-
apeutic fractions are the same.
Nevertheless, in a growing
number of research ' centers,
scientists are seeking to learn
the secrets of spontaneous remis-
sion. When they reduce to lab-
oratory and clinical procedures
the presently mysterious me-
chanisms of this miracle, cancer
will lose some of its dreadful
power.
(NEXT: Antigens—the basis for
cancer vaccins.)
DR. COLE in his laboratory at the University of Illinois College
of Medicine.
CRASH-IFIED ADVERTISEMENT — This general store in Lawrence-
ville, lie„ makes people believe it whenit says "Derive in,"
The car, which appears to have crashed through tht side of
the store, has been cut in half and placed against the build-
ing with pieies of "debris" piled on it. Clay Chlildress. operator
of the store, says it's a secret 'how he. obtained the 000.000
license plate.
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In the lemon -pie recipe that
follows the butter -rich crumble
serves as both top and bottom
layers for the fresh lemon fill-
ing, This dessert is ineaopensive
and will add a touch of glamour
to any meal.
LEMON FILLING
15* cups sugar
6 tablespoons cornstarch
iia teaspoon salt
2 cups hot water
1 egg, beaten
% cup fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
2 tablespoons butter
Combine sugar, cornstarch,
and Salt Add hot wager gradu-
ally and cook over direct heat,
stirring constantly for 6-8 min-
utes, or until thick and clear,
Gradually stir hot mixture into
beaten egg. Pour back into pan.
Cook at low heat 6 minutes
longer, stirring constantly until
smooth and thick. Remove from
heat; stir in lemon juice, grated
peel, and butter. Cool.
LEMON CRUMBLE
3/4 cup crushed cornflakes
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup flour
;t cup flaked cocoanut
i teaspoon soda
-4 cup melted butter
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
Lemon filling
Whipped cream
Fresh lemon slices
Mix cornflakes, sugar, flour,
cocoanut, and soda together,
blending well. Stir in melted
butter and lemon peel. Cover
bottom of 9 -inch round cake pan
with % of crumble mixture.
Pour in lemon filling. Sprinkle
remaining crumble mixture on
top. Bake at 350 degrees F. oven
for 20-30 minutes, or until mix-
ture bubbles up, Cool. Garnish
with whipped cream and lemon
slices.
CHOCOLATE MERINGUE
PIE
1 9 -inch baked pie shell
2 cups milk
2 squares chocolate
cup sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
4 teaspoon salt
3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Scald milk and chocolate in
top of double boiler. Blend su-
gar, cornstarch, -and salt togeth-
er. Add to milk and chocolate:
Cook over boiling water until
thick (about 15 minutes), stir-
ring constantly. Cover and let
cook for 10 minutes. Add part
of hot mixture to egg yolks and
blend quickly. Return to double
boiler and stir over hot water
for 4-5 minutes. Add butter and
vanilla; pour into pie shell and
cover with meringue.
MERINGUE
3 egg whites
ti teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons sugar
Beat whites with salt until
fluffy but not stiff. Add sugar
gradually; continue beating un-
til meringue stands in p e a is s.
Cover filling, spreading to edges.
to prevent shrinkage. Bake at
425 degrees F. oven for 4-5 min-
i Utes or until peaks are brown,:d.
Cool before serving.
*
When I was at The Asinine
Inn in Tucson a couple of months
ago, I was served buttermilk
chiffon pie, writes Eleanor Rirh-
e,y Johnston in the Christian
Science Monitor, The chef edit
his recipe clown to one that
makes 3 pies. Checking through
about 10 standard cookbooks. 1
find that none of them -gives
a buttermilk pie recipe, so you
may want this for something
entirely different from other
pies you serve, As you may
well imagine, chefs perform a
great favour when cutting a
recipe down to small amounts.
This one gives ounces for several
ingredients, but it will not be
difficult to figure ounces of
sugar into cups, for instance: 8
ounces equals 1 cup.
BUTTERMILK
CHIFFON PIE
1 quart buttermilk
1!�a ounces butter
6 ounces sugar
21,4 ounces cornstarch
14 pint milk
u„ pint egg whites (about 8)
8 ounces sugar
3 baked pie shells
Whipped Cream
Combine buttermilk, butter,
and the 6 ounces of sugar and
bring to boiling point; add -the
cornstarch which has been mixed
with the 1/4 pint milk. Beat egg
whites stiff, beating in the 8
ounces of sugar. Blend in the
boiling mixture. Pour into pie
shells. When cool, top with whip-
ped cream.
When summer cones, you may
want an ice cream pie for your
• dessert. This is good served in
a chocolate sugar frosted flakes
pie shell — it's so easy to make.
Peppermint ice cream is espe-
cially good in this shell. This
makes an 8 -inch pie shell,
CHOCOLATE PIE SHELL
1'4 cups (3 ounces) semi -sweet
chocolate pieces
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
2 cups sugar frosted flakes
Melt chocolate over hot — not
boiling — water. Remove from
heat; stir in corn syrup. Add
sugar frosted Flakes; mix until
well coated with syrup. Press
lightly but evenly on sides and
bottom of 8 -inch pie pan. Set in
cool place to harden. When cool,
fill with ice cream.
Her Whipped Cream
Was The Real Thing
I never read or hear the words
"whipped cream" without think-
ing of. Grandmother, for these
words are closely associated
with her in my memory. Grand-
mother used whipped cream
with a generous hand, and con-
sidered it fit for almost all des-
serts.
The cream she used was -none
of this vapid stuff that is
squeezed out of a container, nor
was it like the uncreamlike sub-
stance that passes for 'whipping
cream in supermarkets.'
Grandmother used no such
substitutes,. but hers was the
rich, thick cream from a hetd
of well-fed, sleek Jerseys. The
cream had a tendency to change
color with the seasons. In spring
and summer when the cows
grazed on fresh green grass and
clover, it was thick and as yel-
low as gold. When the cows'
fodder was hay from the fra-
grant haymow, the cream she •
whipped up was as white as the
snow in a new snowdrift.
I can see Grandmother now,
egg beater in hand, whipping the
cream in her large blue bowl on
the work table in the pantry.
The whipped cream in the bowl
grew and grew till it resembled
a fleecy, white cloud against a
blue sky, and was thick enough
to cut with a knife, writes Melba
Baehr in the -Christian Science
Monitor,
Under the whipped cream one
was likely to discover fruit:
filled red Je11.O, pudding
plump wile dates or raisins, or
a fruit salad of bananas, apples,
peaches, and grapes. Perhaps the
whipped cream concreted a piece
of feather -light white cake, or
one of Grandmother's good
gingerbreads, or there could be
several scoops of homemade ice
cream under the heap of whip-
Who Started Thcse
April Fool .&¢l ko?
Legend blames Noah for the
Feast of Folly, He is supposed to
have sent a dove soaring from
the Ark on a fruitless flight to
look for a landing place before.
the Flood. waters abated,
More plausible is the sugges-
tion -that it all began in, France.
The French were the first Chris,
tian nation to start the New
Year on January 1st instead of.
March 25th.
Before the change, New Year
merry -making ended. with a
bumper feast on April 1st, On
that day gifts were exchanged.
When January 1st became New
Year's Day the French were
loath to lose their April festival,
so a mock feast was held on the
first day of that month, Joke
gifts were exchanged.
To -day, April 1st in France is
called the feast of "Poisson d'Av-
ri.l," which means a young fish,
or. April fish, easily caught. The
French exchange small chocolate
fish on. All Fools' Day.
Many people think the Feast of
tomfoolery is connected with the
ancient Hindu Feast of Hull.
This is celebrated on March list,
when Hindus send unsuspecting
people on phony errands. But
theologians say that April 1st was
the beginning of, a mediaeval
month of prayer for the feeble-
minded. That day was also the
one day in the Middle Ages when
the harmlessly insane were al-
lowed out of their cages.
Prayers were offered for their
cure. The day became known
as All Fool's Day.
The high-jinks of April est are
part of life almost all over the
world. Spain and. Germany ob-
ject, however, and Russia, does
ped cream. One just never knew
what the cream hid..
And in season there was straw-
berry shortcake, rich enough to
melt in one's mouth, almost hid
under the crimson, juicy berries.
Naturally, one was certain to
find whipped cream, great quan-
tities of it, spooned over the
shortcake from the blue bowl.
I miss the whipped cream that
Grandmother used with such a
lavish hand for her desserts.
Desserts nowadays seem insipid,
without body as it were, ever
since those days in Grandmoth-
er's kitchen.
not favour the euriciii;
it is played in the country 'dis-
Islets,
This year, American chewing
gum manufacturer's marketed
special All Fool, Candy which is
made from• gun cotton, spiced
with pepper and coated with pink
sugar. The children are supposed
to use it to tempt their parents
to make monkeys of themselves,
In Turkey the Press lead the •.,
fooling, They publish fantastic
stories. Other Continental papers
haveAfollowed suit.
A+ Berne newspaper hoaxed its.'
readers with a tale that Captain
Lowenstein, the Belgian finan-
cier who disappeared when fly-
ing across the English Channel,
had been found in Switzerland..
Again, a Bucharest morning
paper shocked its readers with
a story that the city's main rail-
way station had collapsed during
the rush hour, killing hundreds
of people,
Panic swept' the city. It -was
poly stilled when the paper rush-
ed out a special edition •explain-
ing it was all a joke!
Rumanian aristocrats iii exile
still talk of the famous painter
who specialized in April Fool
jokes,
Once he ,painted a currency
note on the wood floor of an art
exhibition in Bucharest.
King Carol spotted it and was
confused when he couldn't pick
it up. The following yeas' the
painter drew a number of light-
ed cigarette stubs on the floor
and,, had quite a laugh as the
aristocracy of Rumania tried to
extinguish thorn.
Good, harmless fun. But it has
not always ended like that. San
Francisco police are still trying
to find the "joker"- who gave
some workmen sandwiches,
Very tasty they were too r.
but they all contained a lethal
dose of arsenic.
It was pointless slaying. The
mystery killer had no link with
any of his victims, lie is still free
to strike again. -
Last year, a Warsaw husband
was met by a friend who told
him that his wife had run away
with another man. The husband.
rushed home. He did not hear
his friend's startled cry of "April
Fool..."
Seconds later a shot came from
within the house. The husband
had killed himself.
ISSUE 18 — 1961
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