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THE UNTOLD TRUTH ABOUT CANCER Increasing scientific evidence for the existence of an infectious cancer- causing microbe emerged through the 2oth century, but was routinely rejected by the medical establishment. Part 2 of 2 The politics of cancer t was public knowledge in early 1951 that the Black-Stevenson Cancer Foundation intended to award two huge grants of $750,000 towards cancer research, and that the first would go to Dr Virginia Livingston's group at the Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, with an equivalent amount to go to New York's Memorial Hospital for Cancer (from 1960, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) which Cornelius Rhoads headed. The trustees having already decided this, the actual allocation was left in the hands of Newark lawyer Charles R. Hardin, but fate intervened. According to Livingston: Hardin, the lawyer in charge of allocation, soon would lie dying of cancer at Memorial and while still alive was prevailed upon by design of Rhoads to sign a paper giving Rhoads power over how Presbyterian's grant was to be spent. And that wasn't going to include further research towards an infectious cause for cancer.** Still, Rhoads was not finished with her... In 1953, Livingston, already world-recognised, took her cancer microbe and a guest, pathologist Dr George Clark, to the Sixth International Congress for Microbiology in Rome, a trip paid for by her husband's firm which was a consultant to British industry. In Rome, Livingston met Emmy Klieneberger- Nobel of The Lister Institute in London. Klieneberger-Nobel was a pioneer in uncovering bacteria without cell walls, which led them to assume many forms.” She called them "L-forms", in deference to the institute at which she worked. Her exploration also covered bacteria with cell-wall breaches. In either case, the resultant germs, called "cell-wall deficient", assumed many forms (i.e., they were pleomorphic). Livingston immediately saw Klieneberger-Nobel's work as clearing a large part of the confusion over her many-formed cancer germ. Livingston's trip to Rome's Congress for Microbiology was punctuated by a stop to visit Dr Wilhelm von Brehmer in Frankfurt, Germany. Von Brehmer's vaccination techniques, long respected throughout Europe, were now icensed by the German government. However, in the mid-1930s, von Brehmer had a scrimmage with the Nazi medical establishment that went right to the top. Von Brehmer had been severely criticised for saying that cancer was an infectious disease, and the struggle eventually found its way o Hitler himself, who, puzzled yet interested, ordered an inquiry into the matter at the 1936 Nuremberg party conference. Subsequently, the committee that was formed came down hard on von Brehmer's views. evertheless, unperturbed, von Brehmer somehow persisted into the egendary status he now maintained. The Rome congress attracted some big names, including Nobel Laureates Sir Alexander Fleming and Dr Selman Waksman. By the time Virginia Livingston returned to the USA, the congress had been highlighted by by Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD © 2009 The N. Y. Institute of Medical Research, New York, USA Email: nyinstituteofmedical research@yahoo.com Website: http://drbroxmeyer.netfirms.com/ NEXUS ¢ 37 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com