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...search for a cancer vaccine has largely been a painstaking, systematic chore of isolating some agent that might produce cancer-killing antibodies in human patients. Last week Swedish Immunologist Dr. Bertil Bjorklund announced that he was taking a shortcut. Rather than waiting for time-consuming analysis, he will inoculate humans with a complex substance that has produced favorable cancer antibody responses using rabbits and horses. Over a seven-month period. Bjorklund vaccine will be injected into 100 Swedish volunteers between 60 and 70, an age group of high cancer incidence. At the end of the year, if the volunteers show...
...Bjorklund vaccine is made by grinding up cancer cells and irradiating them with ultraviolet rays to weaken any viruses that might be present. Dr. Bjorklund and a team of 14 other researchers, including his wife, have been working with it, largely supported by research money from the U.S. Government. Two years ago, Dr. Bjorklund was on the verge of deserting his work at Sweden's State Bacteriological Laboratories when the U.S. Public Health Service came to his rescue with a three-year grant...
...Bjorklund admits that his scheme to inoculate human patients with the vaccine at this time is a venturesome undertaking. But he explains that his work is at a pinnacle and he has "the courage to take a leap." Some of his colleagues, including Dr. Sven Gard, professor of virology at Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute, fear that he may be leaping too far too fast. In the conglomeration of materials in the Bjorklund vaccine, they argue, there may well be lurking some ingredients that can produce harmful side effects, even disease...
...they stood at attention, freshly shaved, in clean uniforms, stepping for ward precisely as their names were called: Staff Sergeant Jessie R. Drowley, of Luzerne, Mich., Pfc. William J. Johnston of Colchester, Conn., Technical Sergeant Forrest L. Vosler, of Livonia, N.Y., Lieut. Arnold L. Bjorklund of Seattle, Wash...