Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 11 July 1957 — Page 9

THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1957

Controversy Centers On Substance For Cancer

By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor (Copyright 1957 by United Preu) NEW YORK (UP) - What happened in the Drake Hotel in Chicago on March 26, 1951, is uttery unbelievable—yet it happened. From that day until this one,

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life has been anything but the same for the man of science, Andrew C. Ivy, and for the whole of organized cancer research. v On that day at the Drake, Dr. Ivy held a private meeting to which* he invited scientific col-

leagues, some wealthy laymen who were benefactors of science, and office-holding politicians. The 65-year-old scientist wanted to tell them — privately —about what he felt he had found out concerning Krebiozen’s biological activity against cancer in man. Th ecolleagues he wished to interest in joining the research. The rich laymen were to sea a promising scientific outlet for benefactors. The politicians were to be impressed with th* important role

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the Durovic brothers were playing in cancer research, for they were in the country on visitor visas which were soon to expire. If this meeting had been really private, there proably would have been no Krebiozen controversy, in Ivy’s opinion. Another Meeting Held Tn the same hotel at the same time, there was another meeting—*‘a press conference” — called by the business man who had been Dr. Durovic’s interpreter and

guide in this country, and a part* ner. Their interest was legitimate if commercial. They thought Durovic had “a miracle drug” and were pressuring the Durovics for the commercial rights. Somehow Ivy’s meeting and this other rpeetlng got merged. All was Confusion which resolved into fiasco. The net result was that news went out from Chicago that day that the famous Dr. Ivy bad found a CURE for cancer. That word, ’’cure,” in relation to cancer, does

to anyone who knows anything about cancer, what a red flag does to a bull. You may well be killing a man if you tell him there is an easy “cure” for his cancer and divert him from the tried treatments which might save him. Morally and ethically, whether from the medical viewpoint or any other, it is outrageous. Ivy agrees wholeheartedly with this, and he has proven- conclusively that he was in no way the author of the “cure”

report. But the storm was, unleashed. Cancer patients and their relatives and doctors were roused to veritable frenzy — they thought the ’’cure” news was backed by the eminent Dr. Ivy. There is no question that the medical and scientific atmosphere had been made hostile because there was not the slightest evidence that Krebiozen was a •’cure’’—the evidence was that it seemed to be “biologically

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p I F t' MF jßfc k*t&' wHFO«I U.S. NAVY Lt. Comdr. Edward F. Wolf phones his wife at Virginia Beach, Va., from Marseille, France, to tell bar ha la safe and sound after being adrift in the Mediterranean. He bailed out of his Cougar jet ' after c&Hsion with an Italian air force fighter during NATO maneuvers, and was adrift four daya On getting back to his carrier, the take Champlain, he learned a memorial had been held for him. f/nternationaV active.*’ Take-off Point Ivy hadn’t yet published anything. “I wasn’t ready tor publication,” he said. He was investigating from a theoretic take » off point which, his opponents agree, is sound. That takeoff point is that the body seems to have chemical defenses against cancer —whatever they are. How else can you explain such well-docu-mented phenomena as far « advanced malignancies disappearing on their own without any treatment? That happens in one in every 50,000 to 100,000 cases, and so is Quite rare. But less rarely, cancers will grow for a while and then stand still for periods ranging from months to many years. Ivy had always maintained that the answer to cancer, if it were ever found, would be found in the natural chemical defenses when they were discovered and understood. Believing that, Durovic’s thesis had made sense. Durovic said he had “stimulated" the anti-tumor chemistry of the horse by injecting a microorganism which causes tumor-like growths in cattle. Dtfrovic had isolated from the blood of 2.000 horses so “stimulated,", a white powder which he wanted to find obt was the specific antitumor chemical compound, the chemistry of the horse had produced for protective purposesFortune From Publicity But the facts which stood out after the “cure” publicity, was that Ivy’s investigative methods had been unorthodox (as they had been frequently in the past), and two persons-the Duro-vics-owned both the only existing supply of the substance and the secret of how to make it and so stood to make a fortune from the publicity. ? The council of pharmacy and chemistry of the American Medical Assn, moved into answer the prime question: Was Krebiozen active against cancer? Dr. Paul L. Wermer, then secretary of the council’s committe on research assembled the records of 100 cancer patients who had received Krebiozen from seven cancer specialists. These specialists reported that in 98 of the 100 Krebiozen had shown no effect whatever. The report was published in the AMA Journal, in September, 1951. Carefully and scientifically detailed, it is an impressive document and has convinced most cancer specialists that Krebiozen is worthless. But rather than ending the controversy, it really began it. What happened was nothing to what wis going to happen. ;

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