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...medicinal substance to seek out and destroy cancer cells without harming normal body cells. All known drugs fail. But radioactive isotopes of elements normally used by the body have recently been found to be effective against two diseases helpful in studying cancer. The diseases: 1) hyperthyroidism (overactivity of the thyroid gland); 2) polycythemia (overactivity of tissues which manufacture red blood cells...
From a cancer researcher's standpoint, the thyroid gland is an ideal organ to work on: it is easily reached with a test material-iodine-since it takes up nearly all the iodine fed to the body. It is also sensitive to atomic radiation. Researchers have found that radioactive iodine inhibits overactive thyroids; carefully measured amounts of it usually cure hyperthyroidism...
Blood-Stream Ferrets. If atomic radiation can inhibit a gland, why not a cancer cell? Dr. Rhoads reported that in some cases radioactive iodine does seem to control thyroid cancer. Exhibit A: at Manhattan's Montefiore Hospital a patient whose cancerous thyroid gland had been removed was discovered to have cancerous daughter cells from the thyroid scattered throughout his body. When he was given radioactive iodine, the radioactive atoms hunted down the cancer cells like ferrets...
Radioactive phosphorus has been tried against certain types of leukemia, a cancer of blood-forming tissues. But in most cases of leukemia and thyroid cancer, these treatments do no permanent good. (One reason: in thyroid cancer, the more malignant the cancer, the less prone it is to pick up iodine.) Dr. Rhoads believes that inorganic elements like iodine and phosphorus offer little real hope...
Just because the University of Connecticut in a relatively small institution without hyper-thyroid press agents, let not Crimson football rooter hold the roseate opinion that Harvard will have everything its own way on Soldiers Field thin Saturday. Although there has not yet been devised any infallible method of judging a team's strength before it has played a game, reports emanating from Storrs, Conn., habitat of the U-Conn-Huskies, as the Crimson's first opponent, likes to be called, seem to indicate that the men from the Nutmeg State should enter the Stadium on at least even terms...