MEDICINE’S GOLDEN DECADE ....
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Castration Treatment Opens
New Front In Fight On Cancer
Bj SCHUYLER ALLMAN—(JP) Features Writer
HUGGINS: Cancer's tortures yielded to his skilled knife.
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SECOND OF A SERIES
For many who had read their
death warrant in the dreaded di
agosis, “advanced cancer,” this
sentence blazed as a beacon of
hope in 1941:
“The improvement was greater
than we have observed in any
care in which an advanced . . .
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cancer was treated in any other
way.”
It was Dr. Charles Huggins of
the University of Chicago and as
sociates Dr. R. E. Stevens, Jr., and
Dr. Clarence Hodges, reporting on
castration as a treatment of can
cer of the prostate gland.
They performed the operation
on 21 men in advanced stages of
this disease and noted 15 were re
markably improved. Pain ceased,
weight picked up, red blood cells
multiplied. Only four patients
died.
Then the overgrown gland
shrank. In 15 the cancer had
spread to pelvis or spine and in
some cases this too, was arrested.
But their conclusion was elec
trifying news and served to con
firm recent theories that the un
balanced state of sex hormones
has something to do with forming
cancer cells.
Confirms An Old Theory
It proved that Dr. J. W. White
was on the right track in 1895
when, performing 111 operations
and reporting relief in 96, he pro
posed castration to relieve painful
overgrowth of the prostate. In
1931 a German, Dr. Adolf Bute
nardt, isolated the male sex hor
mone and called it androsterone.
Two years later it was made
synthetically. A lot of people
thought the fountain of youth had
been found at last and crowded
around for a drink.
Two Mai* Hormon** Found
There were remarkable claims
of rejuvenation, but patients with
enlarged prostate often grew
worse after taking the synthetic.
Two Cleveland clinicians soon
solved that one. They reported
there were two male hormones,
on acting on the pituitary gland
to keep it from over-stimulating
the prostate.
The other, a dead ringer for
androsterone, actually stimulated
growth of the gland!
The United States government
released a synthetic substitute for
the female hormone in 1941 which
has Leen used successfully in the
overgrowth of the prostate.
Conversely, the synthetic male
hormone has had a beneficial ef
fect on cancer of the breast, in
women.
There are no “cures’ in sight,
but at last research seems to be
breathing hot on the neck of this
formidable man-killer.
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R.F.C. REPRESENTATIVE I
IN NOME
The Reconstruction Finance
Corporation representative, Sgt. H.
Palmer has announced that his
office will be open in the Federal
Building Saturday morning in the
offices of the Reindeer Service.
He will negotiate sales of bicycles
and automotive supplies without
the formality of bids. Passes will
be arranged to the Army area for
interested parties to see the de
sired equipment.
Mrs. Eunice Selid will arrive
from Fairbanks to assist in accom
plishing the delivery of all orders
taken.
MRS. WM. BULYGO GIVES
BIRTH TO DAUGHTER
Mrs. Wm. Bulygo, formerly
Martha Jorgenson, of Haycock,
gave birth to a baby daughter
thsi morning in the Maynard Co
lumbus hospital. The father of
baby, T-5 William Bulygo, is sta
tioned at the Nome garrison.
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