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Syndicated columnsiby Ward Cannel, of Newspaper EnterpriseAssociation, have been noted in various papers. CITIZEN-JOLIRN,AIJ, Columbus, Ohio December 26, 1961 Cause Follows Effect In R~cd To Cancer Cure Nevrsoaoer Eet6roriso Associatioe NEW YORK - Has 1961' brought us any closer to a cure for cancer? Without a doubt, a nat'ibn- wide roundup of' research, indicates, even t'houghisciences appears paradoxically to be no closer at this year's end to finding, a cause. Research, however, h a s takeni several hopeful strides down the avenue of haltin!g cancer cell growth. WORK IN' PROGRESS at Vanderbilt University m a y have isolated a chemi'ca1 mechanism which halts a lethal characteristic of the ! cancer cell without impairing the prmal process of t h e healthy cell. Bmth Rutgers University andl neighborirng' Setbn Hall College of Medicine h a v e reported, producing, a high rate of cancers in anflmals by' injecting them first with ~on- tumor viruses commonly car- ried' by humans and then ap- plying doses of known cancer- producing agents or condi- tions: CLEARLY SUGGESTED ini these experiments is the pos- sibility that' any virus might to ii ch off, c a n c er growth under the right circumstance& -and, hopefully, immuniza- tion might halt it. Additional evidence was re-, pclrted by the University of' Southern California Medicall infectedl School where mice,,d with influenza and living ini By experimenting Analysis of' the cancer cell itself-a normal' cell out of control - suggests that an anti-cancer s e ru rn may be possible. Sthidies at the Wor= cester Foundationi for Eperi-. mental Biology in Shrews- bury, Mass.; the University of' California at Berkeley and the Veterans' Administration hospital at Fbrt Riley, Calif., indicate that cancer c e l l s___ might be brought back under control by carefully control- ling the body,'s natural regu- lators like hormones and his- taEnines. BUT IF CONTROLLED lab- oratory experiments w e r ee hopeful in 11961, nature was as inexplicable as ever. -- Satisticians reported at the year's end that rate of' cancer of the uterus and c e r v i x ' among women was continuing a quarter century of rapid I decline. Andl so wiis the rat'e ;- of stomach cancer a m u n g i h vv t , : ry . A- rnice, the cure for cancer may be fQuindi men. But, for other unknown reasons, lung cancer was st211 on the grim rise-at a rate jdoubling, the incidence every laboratory-made smog, devel- oped' a lung, cancer similar to human type. - MEANWHILE, antibodies against viruses takem from h u m a n cancers have been discovered in the p~o o 1 e d blbod of' 40I00 non-cancerotis persons in an experiment at' Roswell Park Memorial Insti- tute in Buffalo, suggesting that a natural immunization may be produced in healthy people. ,L.:.4.;. 10 years. And from around the ~lanet, reports continued' to our in pointing to cancer- causing agents as widely dif- ferent - and unpatterned -'• . as eating smoked fishi in Ice- land; relighting cigarettes in , England; taking the u s u a 1 diet of boiling tea, hot sake, ece, raw fishi and pickled, vegetables in Japan; and liv- ing near a busy„ blacktopi highway in the U.S.A,