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Packaged Virus. Most baffling of all are the disappearing tactics of viruses involved in cancer. In one rabbit tumor, the virus cannot be detected in new, dividing cells, but is readily found in old cells where it has already done its damage. This seems to be a case, says the Sloan-Kettering report, of "the more active, the less evident." And it is the opposite of the situation in most viral infectious diseases, in which the virus abounds and is easily detectable as the fever approaches its climax, because infected cells are then mass-producing new virus particles...
...Green discussed the idea with Julia Barrow, wife of Charles A. Barrow, a former machine-tool maker. She had an incurable brain tumor, and shortly before her death in 1959, she asked her husband: "Why don't you go ahead and give Dr. Green his institute?" Barrow came out of retirement, donated more than $1,000,000 of his own money and raised $2,000,000 more to found the Barrow Neurological Institute...
...into concerts that are flat and dull. He has a tendency these days to conduct with perfection rather than passion-falling back on his tremendous knowledge and experience to see him through. Plagued for years by physical disabilities-a brain concussion, a broken thigh bone, an operation for a tumor that left him partly paralyzed-he recently survived burns that kept him in the hospital for nearly a year. Klemperer had been smoking his pipe in bed, woke to find his bedclothes smoldering, reached for the nearest liquid on his bedside table. It happened to be highly flammable spirits...
What makes the African tumors especially interesting to researchers is their geography. They occur clear across the continent, and down the east coast as far as Lourenço Marques. Since they are found in children of all races, their cause is not likely to lie in ethnic factors. But there are two cutoffs: the tumors do not occur in children living above about 5,000 ft., or in areas with less than 20 in. of annual rainfall. The map of African tumor occurrence, with its highland islands of tumor-free children, almost matches the maps for yellow fever...
...their superficial differences, Dr. Dalldorf notes, the diseases have two important factors in common. The tumor cells are of the same type, and both diseases can be slowed down, or arrested for a year or two, by the same radiation and drug treatment. (Sloan-Kettering medical teams have gone to Kenya and treated many patients there.) So, suggests Dr. Dalldorf, the lymphatic cancers of children, in Africa and elsewhere, may be two sides of the same coin...