The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-14
SURE CURE
FOR CANCER
Scientists Said to be
Nearing Solution Of
Problem.
NO ANNOUNCEMENT
OF SUCCESS OF THE EXPERT
MENTS CAN YET BE MADE, BUT
1T WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE
FORTHCOMING IN DUE TIME.

Buffalo. N Y, Jan. 13.-Scientists
who since 1899 have been studying
cancer at the GraddOck Pathological
Laboratory of the University of But
falo, under the patronage of the state
of New York. are stated to be prepar
ing a report which indicates that they
are nearing the solution of a great
problem.
According to men who have taken
part in the work, it has been proved
that cancer is a PARASITIC disease, in
fictitious in type; it has been trans
planted and reproduced in perfectly
healthy animals; that the reproduc
ton has been true cancer as it exists
in the human and that the disease in
animals has been cured by the ad.
ministration of serum prepared in
the laboratory. What remains now is
the application Of the results of animal
experimentation to the cure of the
disease as it exists in the human be-
ing.
Much Work to Be Done.
Much work remains to be done be-
fore Dr. Roswell Park, director of the
laboratory, will be prepared to make
the final announcement of a serum
suitable for use in the alienation and
cure of cancer in human beings, but
that this will be forthcoming in due
time is declared to be an almost as
sured fact. Additional interest is
given to the matter because of the con-
illusions reached recently by the can
Ger commission of Harvard Medical
College when that body gave up all
further consideration of the subject
and announced that cancer was
neither contagious nor hereditary;
that the only cure for the disease was
early operation at the hands of the
surgeon, and that no discovery had
been made which offers any hope for
cure of the cancer.
The white mice used for the expert
ments in the Buffalo laboratory were
obtained from Professor Jensen. of Co
penhagen, about year ago. Although
the animals died between New York
and Buffalo. innoculatiOn from one
was successful in several mice and
by repeated TRANSFORMATIONS a large
number of mice with cancer have been
available for experimentation The
occurrence which led 10 the discovery
of the serum in question was the spon-
taneous recovery of several mice
which had been inOculated.
Secured an Antitoxine.
Possibility of the animal overcoming
the cancer led the eXperimenters to
investigate the conditions under which
this occurred. and having for some
time in mind the possibility of the
serum treatment for cancer they con
Quoted a series of experiments which,
they declare. have proved beyond
question that the blood of mice which
recovered possessed an antitoxine
quality and when injected into mice
suffering with cancer stops the growth
and when the tumor is not too large
causes its disappearance and leaves
the mouse so protected that the tu-
mors do not return.
Further experiments showed that
the mice cured in this manner like
wise possess in their blood an anti
toxine which works ia similar way,
showing that the cure is the result of
the development of a special immun-
ity from cancer.
The field which is opened by these
primary experiments is apparently a
difficult one. but the scientists are
fully confident that they prove in prin-
ciple that not only is cancer durable.
but extend the hope that some means
may be found TO develop a similar
immune serum which can be aDnlied
to human beings.