The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-04-13

suits.
Picture Is Brighter
But. despite this negative
side, the cancer picture is
brighter.
Bit by bit, on projects aimed
specifically at cancer and in a
vast range of more general
quests, laboratory scientists are
building up new knowledge
about the human body, how it
works, and how and why things
go wrong.
From any Of these inveStiga-
tons could come the key to UNI
lock cancers mysteries or a
weapon to prevent its malevo-
lent work.
AS science and medicine learn
more, so does the general pub
lie.
Cancer education and its re-
suits have made their own i'm
portant inroads into the terrible
statistics of earlier years.
Men and Women Benefit
Men and women educated to
have regular physical examina-
tons, to recognize cancers dam
ger signals and report them to
their physicians are benefiting
in turn from earlier diagnosis
and treatment.
The ''smear technique" alone.
for detection of uterine cancer,
has reduced the death rate for
that type of cancer by nearly so
per cent,
Cancer specialists emphasize
that, without a single new de-
~velopment, early detection, d.
agnosis and treatment could
save as many as $4,000 of the
new cancer cases developing in
a years time.
Medical science has only three
ways to treat cancer-surgery,
radiation and drugs - and only
two methods to cure it. Drugs
cannot yet qualify on that score.
Seek Better Drugs
Drugs now available will re-
lieve the pain of cancer, shrink
its size and sometimes allow the
patient to resume normal activ-
ity. Eventually. their effective
ness diminishes.
The search for better drugs
and for ways to use those avail
able more specifically and ef-
fectively continues on a ma
tionwide basis.
Much work is also being
done, at various centers, on
using combinations of drugs,
combinations of surgery and
drugs, radiation and drugs, or
all three, to determine if any of
these are significantly more eff
fective.
Trying to find the cause of
cancer. investigators are lured
into a. score of research areas
by hints that an answer might
lie there.
Probably Not One Cause
Is cancer an inherited weak
ness? Is it caused by a virus?
Do physical and emotional stress
play a part? Does where a per-
son lives. the kind of food
he eats and the air he breathes
affect his chances of getting
cancer, or the kind he will get?
Many longtime Investigators
believe that if and when the an
swer to this many-faceted dis
ease is found, it will never be
pinned down to one cause or
one cure.
Typical Of the many lines Of
research being followed are
projects underway at the Ohio
State University Health Center.
Just recently, an institutional
grant for $4,000 was awarded
to Ohio State by the American
Cancer Society and allocated to
the following projects:
Many Local Studies
DR.. Bertha Bouroncle is study
ing the presence of cancer cells
in the circulating blood of Hodg-
kins Disease patients. DR.. Leo
pold Liss plans to grow, study
and photograph brain tumor
cells in tissue culture.
Samuel Meites at Children's
Hospital is studying an unidenti-
fled organic acid in the serum
of Hodgkins disease patients.
Prof. ]. F. Smell is studying how
tumor cells react to the anti.
biotic, tetracycline.
Nicholas Teteris and Paige
Bosch have a study of estrogens
in endometrial carcinoma; N.
BAHIA, in pathology another type
of study on the same subject.
Scientists Work in Teams
L. Buerger is studying human
neaplastic and non-neoplastic
breast LESSONS with light. phase
and electron microscopy. George
Sigalos is studying the reversi-
Ebility of carcinoma in stu, work
ing with mice with cervical cam
Ger induced by chemical agents.
Drs. William Pace and David
Kinsey are working with a new
~peffusion technique by means
of a corporal tourniquet for
application of chemical agents
to tumors.
In a team effort, Drs. Arthur
James,, William Pace, Joseph
Bonita and Nicholas Vorys are
evaluating the role of estrogens
in the origin and development
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