Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-23 | Page 4 | Inject Cancerous Blood into Own Veins for Test

Inject Can Cancerous Blood Into Own Veins for Test Tet Evidence of the value of ot a new test for cancer has Just jUt been reported in Berlin by two scientists who dared to try the test on themselves by in in- j in into o their own yew veins the blood from cancer patients says aya Science Service The courageous scientists were Dr Hans J. J Fuchs of this city who developed developed developed de de- the test and his colleague Dr H. H Dr Fuchs o observed some years ago I that from the blood serum scrum of patients with malignant gnant tumors he could precipitate precipitate precipitate pre pre- out outa a certain fraction which when exposed in an incubator with the serum of a patient undergoes a sort ort of dige digestion Uon The extent of the digestion can be determined determined determined deter deter- mined by analysis of the amount o of nitrogen in the mixture But when the serum from a cancer patient Is exposed to the action of serum sorum from another cancer ancer patient no such action takes place This s Is the basis of the diagnostic test for cancer In the latest Investigation Dr Fuchs and his ili colleague repeatedly injected ted serum from a cancer patient into their own veins After 26 28 days their blood which had been normal gave the re reaction reaction reaction re- re action of a cancer bloo blood t What happens in cancer Dr Fuchs explained Is that the cancer cells produce a specific antigen which then calls forth the production production-of of a corresponding corresponding corresponding corre corre- antibody The antibody is the agent by which the body fights tights I ithe the antigen of the invading disease Inthis in inthis this thIs' case cancer This sit situation cor corresponds cor- cor responds to body's production o oan of ofin an in antitoxin to fight the toxin of the diphtheria ria da bacillus for tor example Tho of Dr Fuchs and his colleague col col- col I league 26 days after the injection o of blood s serum rum from horn a cancer patient show showed d all the char characteristics ct of blo blood d serum in bi specific antibodies des against m malignant li tumors 1 rs or cancers III