FORMALIN INJECTED

Evening Star, Issue 19757, 6 January 1928, Page 5

FORMALIN INJECTED

MAKES CANCER CURE ITSELF BY STIMULATING BODY. LONDON, December 22. Remarkable cures of cancer in rats are described by Dr Lumsden, of the Lister Institute, in the current issue of ‘ The Lancet.’ 11c says that the blood ol rats with a cancerous growth contains a. substance actively hostile to the growth. His object has been to discover how this substance can be increased to augment the forces of deicnce against the disease when the growth is not very

bij£. Ho believes that tli c tissues <if the body can, if stimulated, light and win the battle. At present the development is ususally so gradual that the tissues do not wake up until it is too late. J)r Lumsden forces the issue by an injection into the growth of a solution of formalin, which poisons many of the cancer celts and trees the irritating substance they contain. This substance in turn is carried away in the blood to stimulate the rest" of the body into conflict with the cancerous invader. If the body wins the victory is final, ns the body forces thus mobilised are never entirely disbanded. Since March ho has treated seventyseven rats with tumors, curing fiftyfour. Of twenty-five rats treated since October, twenty-four have been cured. RESEARCH IN ISLE OF MAN. LONDON, December 9. The ‘ Daily News ’ says that man’s decisive battle with cancer may bo fought on the Isle of Man if Dr Louis Sanibon, the expert in tropical diseases and cancer, succeeds in persuading the Manx Government to permit it to be used as a battleground. Dr Sambon visited the Isle of Man and lectured to doctors, pointing out that yellow fever, malaria, and other diseases had been solved by epidemiology, which, alone, was likely to reveal the causation of cancer. He urged that the island was most favorable as a field of inquiry, owing to its' geographical position and its possessing the ordinary quota of cancer. The Governor of the island and the •-doctors are sympathetic to the proposal.