4111111111111111111111111111111111111111111. - 111111111111- -.1111.1.111111•11•1111111111111•11E. --1111111.111111111111111.11111111111181.88111111.11 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 8—Friday, April 5,-1974 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. 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