CANCER CURE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1350, 30 January 1912, Page 6

CANCER CURE.

SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS ON WHITE MICE. Tho possibility, but no more than the possibility, that a new-method has been discovered by which human cancer may be successfully treated was expounded by Professor Wassermann ■at a meeting of the Berlin Medicinal Society in December. Tho new method, which is described as chemotherapeutic, consists of the introduction into, the blood circulation of a combination of two rare substances, tellur and selenium, with a colouring matter oosin, which,.in Professor Wassermann's combination, have been found to destroy cancer-like growths in mico. The Professor explained that tho difficulty of treating' cancer and similar growths consists in tho fact that the injurious cells are not foreign organisms, biit arc homogeneous with healthy cells! It follows" that a,ny preparation introduced must bo elective—that is, it must seek out and destroy the harmful cells without also destroying the homogeneous healthy cells. - Professor Wassormann has succeeded in completely healing growths similar to cancer in white mice when those growths were fully developed but not too large He expressly stated, however, that he did not know whether Mjc ; proefduro would ho.effective iti human cancer, or, indeed, whether human beings r-ould ho Mt'eiy subjected to treatment, with an eosin-selenium combination, hut his definite success, so far as it poes, holds out MGourmflUK poMibllitiM for future re. teuca on th* cam* limi^