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Show Dr. Pilgrim Advances New Theory Cells Fail To Die At Proper Rate By R- D- VnLBE Chronld Cunpuf Editor I cancer is not caused by "wild, ' rapidly dividing cells" but by a decrease in the death rate of cells. THIS IS THE theory presented by Dr. H. Ira Pilgrim, assistant research professor of surgery, at the faculty discussion series Tuesday afternoon in the Union East Ballroom. Dr. Pilgrim told the audience that the population of cancer cells are controlled by rules similar sim-ilar to the rules that govern all life, and that growth of these cells is equal to birth minus the death of cells. If cells continued growing, he added, in 78 days one cell would have divided into a mass the size of Lake Mead. ...He surmis dthaee now is them He surmised that most research re-search in cancer is involved with the retardation of the reproduc- Itton of cancerous cells, but that he is concerned with the death rate of these cells. His theorv was broueht about by controlled measurements of cancer in mice where he found that "cells were not dying the I way they should." IN HIS RESEARCH, Dr. Pilgrim Pil-grim has used mise extensively to find the effects of hormones secreted by the pituitary glands j Md gonads upon the adrenal i glands of female mice. He has tound that with certain stocks of J 'nice, cancer can be caused in I e adrenal glands by the re- moval of the ovaries. This phenomenon he found due 10 the adrenal glands trying to Produce the estrogens (hormones) (hor-mones) that were formerly proceed pro-ceed by the ovaries, and that I ; adrenals grew at a tremen- it fousrate. tj PILGRIM told the audi- ,l ' "ce. Life isn't as simple as a it or"la," and that even though ( e naj Just begun q scratch ii vly of cancer research, he fl: oe"eves he is on the right track. tr!ie(r,ecently received a $45,000 , a research with mice to J develop more information n cancer which he called "a ! JjWdisease but overly drama- i irim stated that he UD L biologists will take mi ! (re?earch of cancer and not leave it to medicine |
