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I i i i--. - Reprinted from PITTSBURG" SUN TELEGRAPH ' _u'edncsriov; Sept. 30, 1953 EQt!ndation Plans New Cancer Study The Cancer Re<earnh Foun• dat.on, with h.cadqu9rters In tlir Empire Bldg., hopes to sp:.rk the search fcr an ans ser to the p+tz-.ler cancer, down, rc•ads no' w!dely accep'ed as maln arcerres. According to the foundation, o.,: In every Bve persrls ae• velo~ts cancer. Deaths caused by cancer are j-umpink at !he rate nf 30 pzr cer.t every ten years. A apukes• man said: TO STUDY CAUSE The foundatit-„ appiied for a charter yesterday. A m oa g •hose llsted as incorporatorj was Dr. J: '.V: Brandt, instruc• tor Jn tntetnal medicine at ihe [ Pitt Medical S*hool. I T•te sole objective of the toundation 1s to support and conduct research ~ related to the etlblogy--or cause-of cancer anct' posslble spec'.flc treatment. Specliloally, the Cancer Re• searrh Foundation Is prcmot• in„ Rtudles Jn certain basic sclenr.e^ with special reference tn th: f1r•Id of fllterable or,;an• :sms-the virua theory. The theory that cancer Ih In. fectiou and may be spread by a small' organism just lrke I tuberculosis or sY7 l,llfa hasn't received the attetrtion it de• serves, the foundation believea. Reprinted fIotn fl PiTTSBURGH' SUN TCLEGRAPH _ _ Surdny Oct 4, 19,53 Cancer Germ Hospital, ::ewark. N. J, By induclhg cancer In whitr mice and guirea pigs, the team eonciuded that "cancer does no: ~ (I nnsi§t of a localized tumor Theory lieV~SVl.1 alThey have picturied It as a I generalized disease ^aused by Jy Researchers ; s~AS& ~ A\Y FOft1I5'e human Some doctors have a hunch .ancer I's "iitfeetious." and causcd by a germ - just ]ikc tubercu:osl.a or chickem po;:.. That's the hunch the Cancer Research Fnundation;,organlzed In Pittsburgh -ec.ntly, hope3 tc )lay Ini its effort to find an an "eY to tne puzzier cancer. 't'Y.e cancer "gFrm theory" is not new. As iong, ago as ?,RA0: some scient!srs thought that cancer, as well as clher disear.es, was caused' by a germ. At the Sixtb Intcrrattoral Congress of Jlicrnbiclogy in Rome, Itz1y, Sept 9, an Amer. 'can res^arch group, reporting on tite germ t!:enry n1 cancer, mkd^ the front,page r( t1:e Washington Post and the `ew York Tim,s. Preecntine a series of rapms, the ¢roup claimed tn 5ave isn• late,: the cancer causing micro. organism. ANTt SL• RtiM FI\D They went a.aep f-jrthrr and repor;ed that they liave oti, tarned an anti•rrntm~ frnm, bodlcs of anlmals, tnfrctrd vdtlt ncer and that the anto•:erum ,~akena and snmetimes rie• St roy s thc canrercaur;InF urganlstn. On the research tenm which reporterl ~he fin+iings w-rr Drs, Virginia Wuerthele G1ea• ,tor Alexander, W. L. Smith, and G. A. Clark, of the Presbytcrian The cancer m:cro•organism was described as nav.ng many forcns and' sizes-frn:n viruses visibl: only undbr an electroli mtcrosconic to the large: rod like. baci7lirescmhling the germ of ruterculosi!~. Dr: Cltrrk, who is nresicient of t*e Lack:nvana County Unit of Ihe I'meriran CanVr- Society r;nd dlrf.rtnr o" the Tumor Clinic„ Scra?uon State Hospital. reported: on the germ theory before the Int^rntatnrtall Cinc.•r Sympnsium held In Lacl:awanna County Mrtrch,2i, 1953. GGuinea pigs, notoriously ra slstanC to cancer, were infected with cancer viruses shot lnto their blood streams, he reported. EVIDENCE FOUND In t h e 1930's, the germ theory in relation to cancer received considerable notice when find• ings of two scientists at the National Institute of Health in Washington, D. C., found evi- dence that cancer Is an lnfee• tious disease. These twc. Drs. T. J: Clover and J. 1.. Engle, had worked for 20 years, on the scofferl•at theory that cancer is a n,m- municable Infection caused by rt defirtte germ. Before Ytc theory could be explored: thornughly, T2r. F.ngIe died. The team § flhan^lal backrr, wealthy, retlred and anxious to !-et' his millions to work, J. J; Murdock, of Cali. fornia, was also taken by death and the ortarriited research groun& to a hhlt. 2GiZZ..Lr'f o 23 1 JT ?) 2ZZ'faz31 , _ Reprinted from . _ !?ITTS'_'URGH SUN TELEGRAPH Fiehesday, April 4, 1956 P19t.aburgFi SpoO•ttgh.t :1 All Sorts of Cause_s.- Tures'- for Cancer ~,. P1T 31cCOR1fACk --. OSCE: YOL'g~XHAtsST the "lveathe," you can keep a conversation-loing almost i.ndeanitel,v these days with cancer as tne subject. Theoretical causes range from bumps, bugs, cige*eta, exhaust fumes to. as one astute scientist told m,~ recently, "the secret of life itself." "Cu:es"'can keep the conver- aati.l going far into thr night. There are drug cures, heat cures, st:rgical cvres and even- t+.:th•healir:g. The cures, or cancer arrest. !:.g therapies, come In two types: ausck and conventional. Labeled as c•uaclc r.re those pooh•poohed by organized medicine and usually proved worth~ pooh• dibtrict poohing. The Pittsburght reportedly have its share. Conventional weapons includes surgery, radiation and cltemo- therapy-a drug attack. Pittsburgh scientists have beenm adding to the ar:.enal of conven, ttonal weapons. •.in. }feCarnnack r q . Dlost'interesting nf, aall cancer theories and cures Is one being backed by the Cancer Research Foundation of Pittt• burgh. The theory is that a tiny micro- organism-bug-Isolated by scientists in every human cancer causes the disease. The Czncer Research Foundatlcn is trying to drum up funds to get the -esearch moving sgain ac top speed, -15r. Clark s group reported on the thecry at the Int~r• na•,tonal Congress of Microbiology in Rome several years agm The conservative New York Times, thought the story Important enough~ to front,cage it with a staid twocolumn hesdline. . . . . . . . . . . Reprinted from __ PITTSBURGH SUN TELEGRAPH L S$a_urda•v, June 11, 1955 Sci¢ntist Expounds Th¢cry to AMA 8y PAT McCORMACK a-THn••fe sarrrdlrr ATLANTIC C I T Y„ N. J., i June 11.-The much ma9gned clgaret came In for a face•sav Ing today by the •ientist who reported to the ;tation's doe• tors: ^In the absence of a minute micro•organism which aeti off, cancer, ten cigarets or ten packs a day every da) of a p»rsor's life•time can't ;.os• slbly cause lung cancer:"The sciet,ttst; Dr. George A. Clark,of Scranton, reForted at the annual meeiing -; the e17 < ~ian e as " rrc uta+ e I evidence" this is so. j The ce.se he presented. through a scientific exhibit M sona_bv the Cancer Qe- Y~otm z on o buraI.,. s ui t upon a t.'eory thit a littie b~g causes cancer. The bug-a microorganism -apparently is everywhere. Dr. Clark told the Sun•Teleg;aph In an exclusive inter•iew. BUG ISOLATED He-an;• a handful of re- search tvorking t"-roughout the world-hnve isol ,ed the bug In every human cancer known. ElaborFting upon a theory popular In the 1t350's, Dn Clark an& associates Isolated the mlCro-organism during rr search at the National Insti• tute of Health some years ago. 202ZZ40237 (-