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Though no one has yet been able to isolate a human leukemia virus and grow it in a test tube, one indirect way of establishing its presence is to find antibody against it. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Steven O. Schwartz of Chicago's Hektoen Institute and Northwestern University reported that he had found antibody, apparently against leukemia, in a dozen families. Beginning in 1957, the Chicago suburb of Niles had eight fatal cases of leukemia in children who either attended the same school or had siblings and playmates who did. There had been one other case nearby...
...cancer, leukemia's causes and cure are unknown. Largely as a result of the work of Dr. Steven ). Schwartz of Chicago's Hektoen Institute (TIME, April 11, 1960), there is growing suspicion that the villain is a virus. Dr. Schwartz injected volunteers in Cook County Jail with leukemic fluid and, he believes, developed in them immunity to the disease...
That viruses cause some forms of mouse leukemia has long been accepted, but years of the most exacting research failed to turn up viruses in human victims of a similar disease, acute leukemia. Probably, reasoned Dr. Steven O. Schwartz of Chicago's Hektoen Institute, this was because the virus was somehow modified in the patient's body...
Last year Surgeon General Thomas Parran granted Ernest Orlando Lawrence $30,000 to use in cancer experiments. Last week Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, director of the National Advisory Cancer Council, announced that a group of cancer patients, drawn from a special list in the University of California's San Francisco teaching hospital, have been placed under the cyclotron for treatment. Wary of raising false hopes, Dr. Hektoen warned that "these treatments are purely experimental...
...hastened, last fortnight, to publish the facts. Vaccines immunize against specific infection. For several years doctors, further, have believed that diligent experiment would show them a vaccine, serum, or antitoxin * to cure any particular disease. Many an agent was tried, and many a disappointment ensued. In Chicago Dr. Ludvig Hektoen and Ernest E. Irons wondered at the extent to which U. S. physicians are now using vaccines to cure disease, as against preventing disease. Accordingly they sent questionnaires to specialists and general practitioners in Michigan, Indianapolis, Manhattan and Brooklyn. Of 1,261 physicians reporting only 17 consider vaccine therapy generally...