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Pursuing the cause of cancer, Drs. S. Lieberman, B. R. Hill, and L. F. Fieser, together with Dr. Konrad Dohriner and Col. R. P. Rhoads of Memorial Hospital, have gathered new evidence that cancer and leukemia are caused by endocrine disturbances, particularly in the adrenal gland. It is probable that glands in the cancer and leukemia patients secrete cancer-causing chemicals. A possible cure was recently reported by Dr. James B. Murphy, who stated that transplanted leukemia can be prevented from developing by injections of adrenal cortical hormones...
...Jersey, Teresa Truax, 19 months, was gravely ill with leukemia. Her father, Sergeant Elmer Truax, was Somewhere in the South Pacific. Only the Commander in Chief of the South Pacific area could approve a furlough, and communications to him must be only on matters of military import. But Mrs. Truax kept trying. Last week she got a letter cold, with official language, warm with hope: The matter was receiving the "attention of the appropriate officials of the War Department." Teresa's mother beamed: "I guess we're getting some action...
Died. Daniel Calhoun ("Uncle Dan") Roper, 76, old-line Democrat who became the first New Deal Secretary of Commerce (1933-38); of leukemia; in Washington. Son of a Marlboro, S.C. Confederate officer, he began his political career with a congressional clerkship during Cleveland's second administration. As Wilson's Commissioner of Internal Revenue, he was the first to fail at Prohibition enforcement. As Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce, the oldtime Methodist dry became a butt of brain-trusters, but did a good job of placating big business with speeches as tasty as the famous watermelons he served...
...Vitamins may play an accessory role in the treatment of cancer. Patients with cancer of the stomach are unable to distribute vitamin A through the blood stream the way normal persons do. The cancer cells seem to devour the vitamin. Patients with leukemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, have a much higher amount of vitamin B1 in these cells than do normal persons. Conclusion: there may be a way to starve cancer cells by depriving them of the vitamins they especially need. Dr. Rhoads hinted at the startling discovery of a chemical which in the test tube strangles...
...Phosphorous, which settles in the bone marrow and spleen, is used for the cancer-like blood disease, leukemia...