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ROSEMONT, Ill [AP] - A biolo-.
gist claimed yesterday to have cured
breast cancer in mice by using the
controversial substance Laetrile
along with nutritional compounds.
The claim was made by Harold
Manner, who heads the biology
department at Loyola University in
Chigago.
MANNER presented a paper about
his research at a meeting of the
National Health Federation, which
describes itself as the nation's "larg-
est, organized, noncommercial con-
sumer group."
Manner has been criticized by
officials of the American Cancer
Society because he has not presented
his research at meetings of scientists
where it might be evaluated, or
published his results in scientific
journals.
Scientific authorities have said
that Laetrile is ineffective in treat-
ment of cancer and experiments at
the National Cancer Institute and
Sloan-Kettering Institute have found
it ineffective. The Food and Drug
Administration has banned inter-
state shipment of the substance, al-
though many Americans have gone
to Mexico or other foreign countries
to obtain treatment or have obtained
it illegally in the United States.
DESPITE THE FDA ban on the
substance, a number of judges have
approved requests from individual
cancer patients that they be allowed
to use Laetrile.n
And in Oklahoma City, U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Luther Bohanon has ruled
that any terminally ill cancer patient
in the United States can import
Laetrile for his own use as long as he
has an affidavit from his doctor
attesting to his condition. The judge
has issued an injunction against the
FDA and customs officials from
interfering with importation under
those circumstances.
Laetrile is the name given to
amygdalin, which is derived from
apricot and peach pits. lima beans
and certain other sources.
MANNER said he and his graduate
assistants used 105 mice which had
developed spontaneous breast can-
cer. Twenty-one were given no treat-
ment. The rest were treated with a
combination of Laetrile, Vitamin A
and enzymes.
He reported that in all of the 21
non-treated mice, the tumor contin-
ued to grow. In the treated group, the
pancer disappeared completely in 75
and partially in nine.
However, he said during question-
ing at a news.conference that he did
not check the animals for evidence of
the spread of cancer to other organs
nor did he do microscopic cell
studies. The evidence, he said, was
only that the tumor could no longer
be seen or felt.
MANNER said he made no claims
for Laetrile therapy programs in
regard to other types of cancer, nor
would he say his regimen might be
suitable for treatment of human
cancer.
And he said: "I am violently
opposed to self-diagnosis and self-
treatment. There is a lot of trouble in
the Laetrile issue.just because of that
very thing.
"A person would be foolish to try
and diagnose and treat himself."
Manner added, "I don't think Lae-
trile is the total answer."
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been "dethroned" and no longer control
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grow up in America.
The Carnegie Council on Children, in
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sweeping changes in domestic policy to
put parents back in control, including a
full employment economy and a credit
income tax system to redistribute per-
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"MOST AMERICAN parents are
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