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...experts rattled the test tubes of research labs this month with claims of far-reaching discoveries about the cause of cancer and, in particular, the mechanism of leukemia, cancer's blood brother. The biggest claim was filed by Nobelman Otto Warburg, head of Berlin's famed Max Planck Institute for Cell Physiology. Said Warburg, as translated in Science: ¶ The cancer process begins when cells are injured by being starved of oxygen...
...master in the field, Warburg, 72, brooked no quibble. "The era in which [my theory] could be disputed is over, and no one today can doubt that we understand the origin of cancer cells." There were disputers nonetheless. One of them Copenhagen's Dr. Jorgen Kieler, told a leukemia conference at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit: "This concept cannot be accepted without reservations." Dr. Kieler showed that under certain conditions leukemic cells "breathed" at the same rate as normal cells. This contradicts Warburg's belief that the respiration of all cancer cells has been irreversibly damaged...
That same day an Air Force plane flew a leukemia victim from Italy to Germany for treatment. Air Force instructors trained Brazilian pilots in the use of jet fighters. Air Defense Command officers at Colorado Springs, Colo, attended a class in public speaking (explains ADC Commanding General Earle Partridge: "One of our generals went to Washington last week on a project involving $80 million. He had 15 minutes to make his pitch to the Pentagon. I want to be sure that he knows how to make a sale"). In Texas airmen struggled through an obstacle course on which the final...
...When Eileen Sue Van Lopik, 2, of Grand Rapids was found last November to have acute leukemia, doctors examined her identical twin Kathleen Jo, were relieved that she seemed to have no sign of the invariably fatal disease. Last week, as the parents were told that there was no chance for Eileen Sue, they learned the worst: Kathleen Jo has leukemia. Since there is no known hereditary factor in the disease, the Van Lopiks were victims of an estimated million-to-one mischance. This week Eileen Sue died...
...cancer-research organizations. Outstanding discovery: definite proof of what had only been suspected-that cancer cells take up the body's basic chemicals at different rates from normal cells, suggesting the possibility of tailored chemical treatments for certain types of cancer. This principle, already put to work in leukemia with the use of 6-mercaptopurine, will be extended as fast as other effective chemicals can be developed...