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Surgery, radium and X rays have their value against early, localized cancers, but researchers are looking for something far better-a drug that can be injected into the body to track down and destroy malignant cells. In Chicago last week, discovery and first tests of a substance called Krebiozen, which may or may not be such a dream drug, were announced. The result was a medical earthquake...
Hundreds of urgent telephone calls poured in on the sponsors. One call, from Brazil, was relayed by President Getulio Vargas through the Brazilian embassy in Washington.† However the long-term hopes for Krebiozen turn out, the short-term result of the Chicago announcement will be merely intensified grief. Thousands of frantic pleas will have to be turned down, since 1) the drug has not been made available for general use; 2) conservative doctors may balk at using it until its chemical nature, safety and method of manufacture are more clearly understood...
Regulator Substance. Last week's announcement was made by Andrew C. Ivy, M.D., Ph.D., head of the department of clinical science at the University of Illinois and a top-rank physiologist. Dr. Ivy introduced the discoverer of Krebiozen, Dr. Stevan Durovic, a hawk-faced, 45-year-old Yugoslav...
...liver, spleen, bone marrow and lymphatic tissue which is believed to have some connection with the disease-fighting capacities of the body. Then, from the blood serum of the horses, Durovic extracted and purified a white powder which he believes to contain the regulator substance. He named it Krebiozen, a Greek derivative meaning "creator of biological force...
Dramatic Improvements. Beginning 18 months ago, Dr. Ivy and a team of helpers tried out Krebiozen on 22 cancer sufferers, some of whom were considered hopeless and "terminal" (dying). In general, the effect of the drug was to diminish or abolish pain, improve the appetite and "feeling tone" (subjective well-being), and arrest or retard the malignant tumors. Nine of the subjects died, but even they showed improvement before death, and some of them died of other causes (e.g., heart disease, pneumonia and other lung involvements). Two of the 13 still alive last week showed no remaining evidences of cancer...