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...Coffey & Humber gave crude extracts of adrenal cortex to victims of cancer. Many of them at once declared that they felt better. A very few recovered from what may or may not have been cancer ulcers...
That was enough for Dr. Coffey. Being impatient with the slowness of orthodox doctors in double-checking new remedies, he let newspapers know that he felt pretty certain that he had a remedy for cancer. California's Senator Hiram Johnson helped matters by letting Dr. Coffey expound his ideas about the cortical extract which abated cancer before a Senate Committee...
...when Chief Surgeon Coffey of Southern Pacific stormed Manhattan in his private car, the New York Academy of Medicine scorned his remedy, made him give up a $1,000,000 gift, and told him to keep quiet until he produced patients who remained cured of cancer for at least five years after taking his stuff (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930 et seq.). Black with fury, Dr. Coffey returned to his native San Francisco to bide his time for five-year cures of cancer. Last week came his first opportunity to talk to a national medical body. To several hundred fellows...
...James Ewing of Manhattan, dean of U. S. cancer investigators, has said: "Not more than 5% of cancer cases live more than five years." With double that percentage of survivals, Dr. Coffey saw fit to crow over the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons...
...American College of Surgeons continued to ignore him by failing to give him a place in their cancer symposium. Dr. Donald Church Balfour of Rochester, Minn., the ingoing president of the College, anticipating Dr. Coffey's argument, simply said: "Cancer is curable if it is removed while it is a local disease. Cure of cancer by advertised extracts, serums, and so forth is a myth...