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...phenolphthalein would, of course, penetrate any lesion in the mucosa. To test for intestinal lesion a patient who had a carcinoma of the mouth, Dr. Woldman piped the drug by that lesion through a straw...
Even better results were obtained with rabbit carcinoma. When the rabbits were inoculated in the skin, the resulting tumors invariably disappeared and the animal was thereafter immune. It was evident that in the rabbit's blood some antibody had been generated which dried up the skin tumor and provided lasting protection. Similar experiments with chickens, however, failed...
...Cambridge. Mass, last week Dr. James B. Murphy (Rockefeller Institute) told the National Academy of Sciences how he had concentrated a mysterious substance from rapidly-growing tissue-placenta and embryo skin-of rabbits and mice, shot it into other rabbits and mice suffering from one form of cancer (carcinoma). In most cases the cancerous growth was arrested. A substance concentrated from chicken tumors checked another type of cancer (sarcoma). The inhibitors have not been tried on cancerous human beings...
...Cure of malignant disease in patients with advanced carcinoma or sarcoma (cancer), in view of the experience of the patients of this series, cannot reasonably be expected to occur as a result of the use of the suprarenal cortex extract...
Cause of Cancer. Sir George Lenthal Cheatle (Kings College Hospital, London) says in Cancer: "Turning to this question of the genesis of carcinoma [one of the several ways Cancer manifests itself] it is one in which I have a completely open, not to say vacant, mind." Nor does any one else know for certain what causes Cancer...