| The intransigent, self serving, close mindedness of | | | | produces a chemical factor that powerfully inhibits |
| some members of organized medicine is being | | | | growth of experimental cancer in mice. The factor is |
| shattered by sharp truths fired by scientists from all | | | | imparted both to the blood serum and to the bile and |
| over the country. | | | | has not been found in cancer patients. The evidence |
| It is becoming embarrassingly clear to the big "Cancer | | | | suggests the hypothesis that deficiency, either |
| Research" organizations, that no matter how many | | | | hereditary or acquired, of such inhibitory factors |
| guinea pig volunteers at U.S. penitentiaries they | | | | might be fundamental to the cause of cancer. |
| inoculate with liver cancer cells, the subjects do not | | | | Today, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ridicule |
| get cancer. No matter how much time is wasted | | | | the role of nutrition in cancer, especially since a |
| repeating this experiment and how much public | | | | recognized investigator discovered that a radical |
| money is spent in a benighted effort to square a | | | | change in the diet of trout from scraps of meat to |
| circle, the luster of the words, "There is no cancer in | | | | pieces of bread ruined their livers and caused a |
| normal metabolism," grows brighter. | | | | plague of cancer among them. It is also becoming |
| This viewpoint is no longer as controversial as it once | | | | increasingly difficult to deny the connection between |
| was. Today, a doctor from the Mayo Clinic and Mayo | | | | cancer and "civilized" eating, when so many previously |
| Foundation can tell the board of trustees of the | | | | cancer-free societies, including the Eskimos, are |
| Allergy Foundation that allergy is believed to be | | | | seeing their first cases of cancer among their people |
| closely related to the natural process of immunity, | | | | when the white men come, bringing with them the |
| which include the body's production of antibodies to | | | | "benefits" of civilization. |
| combat invasion by germs, and that evidence of | | | | However, it is still not difficult to deny that any |
| many kinds has shown that factors in the body's | | | | important inroads have been made in the fight |
| resistance are associated closely with the inception | | | | against cancer. A 1957 survey by the Society of |
| and subsequent course of human cancer. Theorists | | | | Actuaries of more than 100,000 group surgical |
| have suggested that cancer cells may develop from | | | | insurance claims disclosed that one out of every |
| time to time in the normal body, but that most of | | | | seven operations was for cancer. The figure for the |
| these are sufficiently abnormal to be attacked | | | | 1947 study - same number of claims - revealed that |
| successfully by the body's natural defenses. | | | | cancer surgery was responsible for only one out of |
| Today, it is becoming increasingly difficult to deny the | | | | every fourteen. The Health Insurance Institute, which |
| role of the liver in cancer, especially since the | | | | made this report, represents the Health Insurance |
| discovery of the TIP - Tumor Inhibitory Principle - | | | | Association of America, which has more than 250 |
| which is manufactured by this organ. The normal liver | | | | insurance companies as members. |