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Breast of Chicken. Major reason for the delay in Rous's recognition was the very nature of his award-winning discoveries. In 1911 he reported that he had ground up and filtered material from a kind of cancer (sarcoma) on the breast of a Plymouth Rock...
...young amputee went to Buffalo, where surgeons exchanged some of his cancerous tissue for tissue from patients with a similar form of osteogenic sarcoma. The hope was that, although the body does not treat its own cancerous cells as "foreign" and therefore does not destroy them by a rejection mechanism, each patient's system would regard the other's cells as foreign, and make immune cells to attack the cancer. If that happened, blood from one patient, containing the immune cells against a second patient's cancer, could be transfused into the second patient to attack...
Also: Michael N. Ozman (third year), "Interferon Production by, and Interferon Sensitivity of the Rous Sarcoma Virus (RSV);" and Charles D. Woody (fourth year), "Conversion of Analogue Data to Computer Acceptable Format...
...slip invisibly through porcelain filters. In those four decades, without waiting to see what a virus looked like, brilliant men did brilliant things about viruses and viral diseases. At Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Peyton Rous in 1910 proved that a filterable virus is the cause of sarcoma (a kind of cancer) in chickens. At Harvard and then at the Rockefeller Foundation, South Africa-born Max Theiler performed the delicate and dangerous feat of getting yellow-fever virus to grow in the brains of mice. With infinite patience, Theiler in 1936 grew 176 generations of virus in tissue cultures...
...roving surgeon flew in, and at Dr. Dooley's request removed what he could of the lump, sent it to the laboratory for testing. Last week Dr. Dooley was back in the U.S. on the strength of the lab report: sarcoma-a fast-spreading cancer, often quickly fatal...