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Andrew Conway Ivy, who ranks high among U.S. physiologists and still higher as a vice president of the University of Illinois and booster of its medical schools, was on the spot last winter. For 18 months, he had been doing hush-hush research with a drug named Krebiozen which seemed to have helped a few cancer patients for a while. He wanted to go on and find out whether Krebiozen was really valuable, and that would take years...
...Krebiozen is no ordinary drug. It is a secret concoction from the blood of horses, made after the animals have been given a secret "stimulator." The maker of Krebiozen was an emigrè Yugoslav researcher named Stevan Durovic, who worked with the financial backing of his rich brother Marko. The Durovics were in the U.S. on visitors' visas which were about to expire. They were threatening to finish their work abroad, slap Krebiozen on the market...
...importance of the work they were doing. He could not do this through the usual medical channels because the job was far from finished and, anyway, medical journals would have rejected reports on a "secret remedy." Dr. Ivy took his dilemma by the horns, told a press conference about Krebiozen, and started a first-class foofaraw (TIME, April...
Hopes for a cancer cure rose a notch last spring when word got out that doctors were giving serious and hopeful attention to a white powder named Krebiozen (TIME, April 9)-even though the experts carefully said it was too soon to make any claims for it. Last week the A.M.A.'s Committee on Research reported its own investigation of 100 patients treated with Krebiozen: only two showed improvement even for a little while. 98 got no benefit. 44 are now dead. A.M.A. conclusion: Krebiozen is no good...
...distributed an elaborate booklet giving the case history of each subject, and containing photomicrographs showing malignant tissue, before treatment, destruction of malignant cells during treatment, and normal tissue on the old cancer site after treatment. Dr. Ivy had sent some Krebiozen to Dr. Zacharias Bercovitz of Manhattan's-University Hospital, who had used the drug on seven of his own patients. Bercovitz indicated that five of the seven seemed to have benefited...