SERUM FOR CANCER

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28669, 20 August 1958, Page 9

SERUM FOR CANCER

“Alleviation Of Symptoms”

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) TORONTO, August 18. A Toronto surgeon says he has developed serium which adds months or years to the lives of cancer victims.

Dr. Gordon Murray, director of the Gardiner Medical Research Foundation, reports on tests with the serum in the “Canadian Medical Association Journal” this week.

The serum, he reports, has had spectacular results in some cases. One woman, suffering from the severe effects of an expanding brain tumour, was fearipg death and had been given up for all forms of treatment. “With serum treatment she changed from an invalid near death to near normal and went back to work for two years,” Dr. Murray says. But he warns that the serum shows no evidence of cure with any patients. It only alleviated symptoms among patients near death and considered hopeless by any other means. He said the serum was obtained by injecting horses with human cancer tissue over a period of time, then removing blood from the horses and fractionating it. Patients injected with this serum daily for three or four weeks showed improvement “beyond what could have been expected in the ordinary course of the disease.

“Moreover, improvement cfccurred at a time when further treatment of the disease had been abandoned by surgeons, radiologists and those interested come one of the weapons availin hormone treatment,” Dr. Murray reports.