THE CANCER SCOURGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20965, 3 March 1930, Page 7

THE CANCER SCOURGE

EXPERIMENTS IN AMERICA. INTERESTING RESULTS. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 1, Received March 2, at 5.5 p.m.) Drs Humber and Coffee announced that autopsies- onp ersons, treated .with their extract, and who died regardless of the consequences, showed the death of the cancer tissue where two or three injections of the extract had been given. They regarded, these results as gratifying, but the findings did not mean that cancer might not have recurred had the patients lived. r It will take from three to five years to ascertain whether the growth killed by extract will recur. The Journal of the American Medical Association applaud Drs Coffee and Humber for their experimental work and their modest disclaimers that they have developed a cancer cure in the popular sense. It warned sufferers against the great trek which has begun towards California to attend the clinics. The journal added that an extract similar to’ Dr Coffee s had been developed by Professor Hansen, of Minnesota, from the thymus of a calf that will produce certain changes in cancer cells following injection. . Still, it was criminal to arouse hopes that a cure had been discovered, and sufferers should not be duped bv expectations that were false so far as present knowledge went.