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Treatment for Leukemia Seen as `Encouraolna' at Hebrew U.
JERUSALEM — Encour-
aging results with a new
treatment for what were pre-
viously considered hopeless
cases of acute myelocytic
leukemia have been register-
ed by Prof. David W. Weiss
and other researchers at the
Hebrew University Lauten-
berg Center for General and
Tumor Immunology. -
They base their work on
the theory that people fall
victim to cancer only when
the body's natural protective
mechanisms fail.
Recently released results
of tests they -began two years
ago show that of seven such
"hopeless" cases treated with
a substance called MER
(Methyl Alcohol Extraction
Residue), in addition to con-
ventional treatment, four are
still alive and well, their
leukemia in a state of re-
mission. But despite these
encouraging results, Prof.
Weiss refuses to regard
MER — • general immunity
booster — as a miracle drug.
He feels it is merely a
model which can be greatly
improved upon and antici-
pates that large drug firms
abroad- will find such im-
provement worth their while.
MER — the key substance
for making the theory work
in this case — was found to
be useful against cancer al-
most by accident. Twenty
years ago Dr. Weiss was
working at the Rockefeller
Institute in New York de-
veloping MER as a tubercu-
losis vaccine. During later
experiments in Englan d,
however, test animals vac-
cinated with MER were
found to be the only ones to
survive an epidemic caused
by a completely different
kind of germ. It was then
that MER was recognized as
a possible "universal" vac-
cine.
Several years later—after
scientists had noted the cor-
relation between general im-
munity and immunity to
cancer — Prof. Weiss began
to examine the possibility
tion by the body, and thus
the many bits of discarded
membrane may in effect con-
stitute a cluster of decoys
around the real cell or group
of cells so that the white
cells and antibodies then at-
tack the decoys instead of
destroying the cancer cells.
Even worse, both the white
cells and the antibodies be-
come clogged with this decoy
material and are thus totally
neutralized.
Dr. Weiss has suggested
possibilities for countering it.
He proposes filtering the
blood to remove as much of
the decoy material as pos-
sible. He also suggests wash-
ing this material out of the
clogged white cells and so
renewing their ability to at-
tack the cancer cells, after
which they may be sent
back into the body in pulses
to do so.
Progress in the battle
against sarcoma cancer, a
relatively rare type of tumor
that shows up in bones,
joints and muscles, also has
been reported in recent days
out of the University of
Texas M. D. Anderson Hos-
pital and Tumor Institute.
Dr. Jeffrey A. Gottlieb,
said researchers have been
able to increase the survival
rate among patients, mostly
teen-agers and young adults.
Reporting at a meeting of
the American Society of
Clinical Oncology, Dr. Gott-
lieb said a combination of
four different drugs were
tried on a group of 82 sar-
.
PROF. DAVID W. WEISS
that MER might turn the
body's natural d e f e n s e s
against cancer cells as well
as against bacteria..
Test results have encour-
aged both Dr. Weiss and re-
searchers in the U. S. (and
possibly Europe as well), to
believe that MER can now
be tried safely against solid
cancers (tumors) as well as
leukemia.
Dr. Weiss and his col-
leagues, Prof. Fannie Doljan-
ski, Dr. Mark Wainberg and
Dr. Zami ben Sasson, also
have shown that cancer cells
may block the body's de-
fensive action by shedding
their cell membrane far
more rapidly than normal
cells. This is significant since
the cancer cell membrane
cont ains the substances
which mark it for destruc-
ki
the Yom Kippur War.
The scholarships were do-
nated by David Satok of
Toronto and Bank Leumi.
The recipients are Avra-
ham Beitner and Shoshanna
Zusser, both third-year stu-
dents, and Rabbi Stanley
Levin, an MA s t u d e n t.
Rabbi Levin is a graduate
of Yeshiva University and
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS holds a law degree from the
University of Maryland. He
is a former U. 'S. Army chap-
lain, rabbi in Cumberland,
Md., and was_ with the Board
of Jewish Education in Mary-
land for 12 years. He came
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