Show Try War Gases In Cancer Cases Army Joins With Research Groups to Study Use of Blister Che Chemicals als EDGEWOOD ARSENAL MD- MD rhe army chemical corps medical division will Investigate the that deadly bUster blister gases ases pre pre pre- prepared Pared for tor wartime use may aid here bere victims of at cancer It was announced The gases asel will be part of 01 a large variety ot of chemIc chemicals Is to be used In Ina II a search learch for tor new compounds for tor cancer treatment The work will willbe willbe be conducted conducted In close collaboration WIth leading cancer research p Alter After the fall faU of at France In 1940 information bout about new blister gases lUes known bown to the French and German Germani reached this country These gases gue Were ed as 81 nitrogen mUI mut- mut lards tards because they blistered the akin like Uke mustard gas al but contained of at sulphur VIII BI Whole Body Study by the chemical corps carpi and agencies ot of the office ot of earch and nd development disclosed that the gases uel were poisonous to nearly U all part parts ot of the body but par par- destructive to bone mar mar- marrow marrow row and nd lymph glands lands Most white and nd red blood cells are formed In the bone marrow Other white blood cells and lymphocytes lym- lym lymphocytes originate In the lymph glands Use of the nitrogen mustards was to treat dIseases In which there there la Is a great production over of at white blood the cells or ora ora a great grest overgrowth of lymph glands gland Hodgkin disease and coma fatal tatal forms torms ot of cancer Because the nitrogen were extremely toxic the they had to tobe tobe be tested carefully betote being ad ad 1 ministered to human patients The I trials trial made at New Haven Haven I Conn b by Dr Louis Goodman and nd I Dr Alfred Altred Z Gilman led to fur I ther experiment torl e eThey TIle They Prolong We Life Result of at the use of at the gases In Inthe Inthe the first 81 67 cues CeI treated recent recently r cent I ly 1 published In the Journal of 01 the American Medical association I showed owed t t while the nItrogen mus-I mus tards do not cure an any form torm of can can- cancer they do prolong We life In many Instances and nd bring brinl about remark able ble remissions In a few cues cea The chemicals were most malt jo tin five In treating Hodgkin ellae y V where results equaled those thon oh- oh tamed with the belt beat ray x-ray treatment tibey gave temporary relief tellef to some om Iu which no DO longer responded j Ito to ray x-ray I Reports are waited awaited on other ease case similarly treated at Memo Memo- hospital In New York York Walter Wlter need Reed General hospital In Washing ton and hospitals Only Oni three type Off of nitrogen onus onus- tard have been used In cancer cancu than is 11 the chemical labors labors- aDd It it Is 11 that the medical eaI division wOl search for bet bet- betIn better ter In cancer drug |