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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1953 BLYTJIEVILLE (ARK.) COURIER NEWS PAGE THREE Scientists Feel Antiserum Best Hope for Cancer Cure By PAT McGRADY Science Editor, American Cancer Society (Written for NEA Service) BAR HARBOR, Me. (NEA) The jackpot question in research is: Will antiserum blood loaded with gamma globulin antibodies cure cancer? A group of distinguished scientists some resident and others from many parts of the United States and from abroad met at the famous Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory here recently to seek an answer to this problem. The American Cancer Society helps support the research.

Many of the scientists think that antisera offers one of the great liopes for, eventual control of cancer. But all of them know that some of life's innermost secrets must be solved before this power- Docttors have pitted antisera with telling effect against a variety of viruses and bacteria. Such diverse diseases as diphtheria, meningitis, tetanus and a spectrum of rare blood conditions have been helped with antisera. Antiserum is that jiart of the blood which carries antibodies- gamma globulin moulded to fit over the specific vicious and vital molecules of viruses and germs. The principle of antiserum is based upon the body's known ability to produce antibodies against large foreign cells, particles and poisons which invade the system.

When the disease germs of humans are injected into hovses, sheep, rabbits and guinea pigs, the animals produce antibodies which destroy the injected germs. The blood then is withdrawn from the animal, and the antibody-rich serum is injected into human patients. In some cases, the antibodies then seek puf the germs in the blood and tissues of the patient and destroy them. Dr. David Pressman, a visitor from Memorial Cancer Center in New York, has devised a technique which brings double disaster to foreign molecules.

He has prepared antibodies against specific cells and incorporated in them atoms of radioactive iodine. The radioactive antibodies then seek out their prey and destroy them, not only with the powerful chemicals that nature has devised, but with atomic rays as well. Dr. Pressman developed i methods during years of painstaking research in which he pro- MICE MAY PRODUCE AN ANSWER: These tiny mice at Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory at Bar Harbor, may lead the way to antibodies that could, in turn, control cancer.

duced radioactive antibodies against normal tissues of laboratory animals. He produced antibodies against mouse kidney, for instance, by injecting that tissue into rabbits. When the rabbit antiserum was then placed back into the mice, the antibodies localized in the mouse kidney. Now Dr. Pressman Is preparing radioactive antibodies against some mouse cancers by the same process.

The results so far show that this technique is not yet ready for use on human cancer patients. Besides concentrating in the cancers, the antibodies also settle in sonic of the normal mouse tissues, notably the liver. At this stage, antibody treatment might make human cancer patients sicker. The big hope is to isolate from various cancers a unique molecule which is found in cancers only. Then antibodies could be produced against that molecule specifically they would hit only the cancer cells carrying it and not disturb the normal cells.

Such a molecule could be a virus even a part of a virus. But there is no evidence as yet that viruses cause human cancers. They are known to cause a half-dozen animal cancers, however. Some scientists also consider it possible that virus-like genes be a basic agent of cancer. Dr.

Francisco Durnn-Reynals of Vale University, a veteran virolo- glst, has shown that the viruses which cause some animal can be changed by the animals In which they live. Their chemical ability to attack specific kinds of cells can be altered, Dr. Duran- Reynals has shown. He has found that a virus which causes cancer in chickens will also cause cancer in ducks. But it will not cause cancer in pigeons.

However, when the scientist placed the chicken cancer virus in ducks and then withdrew it from the ducks, it was capable of causing cancer in the pigeons. What has happened to the virus to make it capable of attacking a once-invulnerable animal? Dv. Leon Dmochowski of Leeds University, England, another visitor to the Bar Harbor Laboratory, thinks it is possible that viruses may be able to break up into still smaller the smaller viruses having powers of attacking cells which were immune to the larger viruses. One indication that this might be true was presented here by Dr. Ludwik Gross of the.

Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital. He experiments with two strains of mice: one which develops the blood cancer, leukemia, readily when it inoculated with a virus and a ond which resists the virus. When Dr. Gross strained tl virus-freighted fluids through a fl ter fine enough to hold back tl leukemia viruses and then injccte the apparently virus-free liquid In the resistant strain of mice, caused not only leukemia but cai cer of the salivary glands as well Dr. Gross is inclined to beliei that the fluid contained at lea two kinds of viruses.

He is convinced that the larger viri broke down into smaller virusi with new powers of changing HOI mal cells to cancer. Bat there Is still a long way to aefore scientists find answers I iich vital questions as: Why is each virus equipped attack only specific kinds of cell usually in only one or a fe 1 species? How are antibodies manufacture by the body, and how do they certain molecules a ke fits only one lock? What is the relationship of genes to susceptibility and resist ance to a virus? How do hormones increase decrease antibody hence the ability to' beat off di; ease? Dr. C. C. Little, Director of th Korea Vets Calmly Face Crash Plus Fed.

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The C46 twin-engine Caribbean- American Airlines plane was carrying the soldiers from Seattle. to Boston and Baltimore. It had landed In this eastern Montana town of 10,000 to refuel. The next stop was to have been Kansas City. The plane was airborne before it was noticed that the right engine was afire.

As it circled the city, crew members opened three escape hatches. Passengers were told to remain in their seats until the plane came to a complete stop, then make a break for the escape hatches. Stewardess Jan Minnlck, Wnbash a small blonde, said everyone ran from the plane as fast as he could after the landing. Told that several small children at nearby Sacred Heart school saw the plane afire and prayed for their safety, the unidentified senger exclaimed: "They must have prayed awful fast, as we got around pretty quick." Laboratory, feels that answers to iuch questions' as these eventually may lead to the control of cancer. Government to Trim Payroll by 100,000 More Jobs, Official Says WASHINGTON (ff) Chairman Philip Young of the Civil Service Commission says the government intends, to trim its payroll by more jobs, but actually fire less than half that number of persons.

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