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Dr Glover's anti-cancer serum now based at New York's Murdock Foundation. Glover Clark knew Glover as part of an investigative team o was under investigation and McCoy wanted him to repeat he US Public Health Service (USPHS), headed by Dr __ his work, this time under Health Service surveillance and George W. McCoy in 1929. Glover had just become too in Washington. Glover complied, and he and his team well known to be ignored. His cancer serum was working. — went to the nation's capital to prove their case at what Much was at stake. The country was already committed — was soon to become the National Institute of Health. o the idea that cancer could not possibly be an McCoy, the investigator, was impressed by Glover's infectious disease, and Glover was saying that he had _ work, and instead of coming down on Glover he issued in already isolated the cancer germ. Actually, he had not, 1937 a letter to Surgeon General Thomas Parran, which but few would believe that it was really Glover's young, spoke in glowing terms of the great importance and obacco-chewing assistant, Thomas Deaken, who had significance of Glover's cancer findings. Soon thereafter, isolated it. McCoy was abruptly and mysteriously replaced by Dr R. Deaken had worked his way up New York's health and H. Thompson. ospital system from the most menial Dr Parran, a product of orthodox positions to laboratory assistant. With medicine, had a definite agenda. The neither formal medical nor scientific ki Q question before him was whether or raining, he nevertheless learned Man lewicz not not to publish Glover's now finished aboratory protocol. Incredibly, Deaken only showed the Washington report, and Parran, engineered a geranium-based culture . despite continued committee medium, managing to grow out acid- cancer germ in approval, was not about to. This sent ast tubercular bacteria. Then he malignant tissue Glover into a cold rage, which ended inoculated mice and dogs, producing AAS with his walking away from cancer with metastatic spread in every but significantly Washington to publish independently. case. In the meantime, Glover's serum, Some time between 1917 and 1918, demonstrated how which had helped and saved so many, Deaken produced specific anti-cancer it probably evolved was subjected to cursory animal sera by injecting horses with the 0 studies and a review without clinical uman cancer germ. Moreover, from tuberculosis trials before being condemned by he sera worked whether in government agencies. and related micro- prevention or cure of cancer in his . Glover eventually returned to aboratory animals.’* But Deaken organisms when Canada, but he would never ad come to the point where he some of the viral answer questions as to just what needed someone to. lend Q had happened in America. credibility to his work, and that phages that lived someone came in the form of Dr in them jumped Focus on breast cancer [Thomas J. Glover of Toronto, Canada. It will always be to Glover's credit that he saw the importance and application of Deaken's work operating rooms to her lab and from day one. A contract was isolated cancers from each breast. quickly drawn up and executed. Glover rushed back to When axillary tissue from under the arm was supplied, open a cancer clinic in Toronto. The serum worked in she cut the cancerous portion from this as well. many but not all cases. However, as Glover's reputation —_ Livingston and Alexander-Jackson found the cancer germ grew, so too did the interest in him from Canada's everywhere; and in the case of underarm glands, even medical establishment. A subpoena was issued, giving when the pathology report was negative, the cancer him 21 days to submit a full presentation of his — micro-organism surfaced." treatment. But Glover was not cooperating. He was in Meanwhile, Cornelius Rhoads, a champion of toxic trouble and would soon be chased out of Canada." chemotherapy, had replaced Ewing at Sloan. The head of In 1926, and now in the USA, Glover had his paper chemical warfare during the Korean War, Rhoads was "Progress in Cancer Research" published.’ It presented deeply committed to chemotherapy and the huge grants over 50 cases, most of which went into remission with his _ it brought from the pharmaceutical industry. serum. It sparked additional notoriety, both in America It is poorly recognised that the chemotherapy or and abroad. "chemo" used against cancer began as a weapon of mass In 1929, Livingston's friend Dr George Clark joined Dr destruction par excellence. When the Axis folded at the end McCoy, then head of the Hygienic Laboratory of the — of World War II, nitrogen mustard, declassified, first came USPHS. Their intended destination: Glover's laboratory, under real medical scrutiny for cancer treatment. Virginia Livingston now went specifically after breast cancer. She had 30 sterile cancerous breasts transported from germs... now based at New York's Murdock Foundation. Glover was under investigation and McCoy wanted him to repeat his work, this time under Health Service surveillance and in Washington. Glover complied, and he and his team went to the nation's capital to prove their case at what was soon to become the National Institute of Health. McCoy, the investigator, was impressed by Glover's work, and instead of coming down on Glover he issued in 1937 a letter to Surgeon General Thomas Parran, which spoke in glowing terms of the great importance and significance of Glover's cancer findings. Soon thereafter, McCoy was abruptly and mysteriously replaced by Dr R. H. Thompson. De Naeene 5 nen dene Af At dn malignant tissue but significantly demonstrated how it probably evolved from tuberculosis phages that lived in them jumped germs... In 1929, Livingston's friend Dr George Clark joined Dr McCoy, then head of the Hygienic Laboratory of the USPHS. Their intended destination: Glover's laboratory, 38 * NEXUS Mankiewicz not only showed the cancer germ in and related micro- organisms when some of the viral DECEMBER 2009 - JANUARY 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com