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Drug - X-Ray Seen
Hope For Cancer
A new approach to the treatment of cancer—involving die use of a combination of dregs and x-rays—appears to be producing satisfactory results in dw experimental stage, according to University of Wisconsin scientists.
In some cases, the combination of certain drugs with x-ray treatment has cured experimental cancers in mice when either the'drugs or x-rays alone have had little if any effect.
This was disclosed by the American Cancer Society in a new report on research by Drs. Halvor Verajund, James Hodgeit and Fred jT~Ansfield of the University of Wisconsin.
The animal findings already have led to the use of combinations of drugs and x-rays iri treating advanced human cancers, the report stated. And while the results of these experiments in some cases so far appear satisfactory, it will be some time before their benefits, 'if any, can be calculated.
The animal experiment* were carried out with two different types* of cancer—a transplantable laboratory Sarcoma 180 and a virus-caused cancer of the mouse breast.
Untreated animals died of the sarcoma within three or four weeks, and of the breast cancer within seven weeks.
Drugs alone extended the mice”s lifespan usually by only a few days at best. X-rays alone sometimes increased survival time by 50 per cent. All animals treated with drugs only, or x-rays only, died ultimately.
Various combinations of, first, drugs, and later, x-rays, not only extended the mouse lifespan from two to four times that of t;he un
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