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can refute, and this work should be welcomed and confirmed by other cancer researchers, and not be ignored, even in view of the great stir at present about viruses.** can refute, and this work should be welcomed and confirmed The white knight by other cancer researchers, and not be ignored, even in view of In The Cancer Microbe,*° dermatologist and cancer the great stir at present about viruses.** researcher Alan Cantwell, MD, acknowledged the invaluable help of four women who pioneered the early Florence Seibert joined Livingston's crusade in microbiology of cancer: Virginia Livingston, MD; earnest in the 1960s, turning her cancer organism over — Eleanor Alexander-Jackson, PhD; Irene Diller, PhD; and to Dr Frank Dunbar, chief of laboratories at the Florence Seibert, PhD. Southwest Florida Tuberculosis Hospital in Tampa. Dr Cantwell grew up reading that all germs Dunbar's conclusion: her multi-formed germ did not — responsible for the important diseases were supposed belong to his groups of known "atypical" mycobacteria, | to have been already discovered. But much to his even though they did have some of the properties of the — dismay as a physician-researcher, he encountered the 46 mycobacteria.“ one left out: Livingston's cancer germ. And although he knew that the many-shaped germ had long been Experimental medicine for the masses considered a mere contaminant or secondary invader or Eventually Virginia Livingston gained university | even non-existent, Cantwell, like Seibert, knew better. affiliations in San Diego, working out of the University of Cantwell first contacted Virginia Livingston on the San Diego with Dr Gerhard Wolter of nearby San Diego — suggestion of a colleague who had heard her on the State University. In 1970, Wolter and Livingston radio and immediately sensed their common ground, discovered actinomycin-like compounds produced by which by then was the acid-fast bacteria found in the cancer germ, one of which, scleroderma and_ cancer. actinomycin D (or . ee _ Cantwell knew that Livingston, dactinomycin), was being used Virginia Livingston had despite her meticulous in cancer treatment despite its established that abnormal research, had already been toxicity. Livingston was aghas branded by traditional medicine that her own discovery was hormonal stimulation Was as a charlatan, leaving what he being used this way. She . * thought to be perhaps the cautioned that not only did coming from the toxic major discovery of the 20th actinomycins arrest the materials and hormonal century largely discredited. maturation of cells and inhibi By 1971, Cantwell had the immune response, but they derangers manufactured published on scleroderma in also inhibited enzymes and by her germ. the highly respected Archives of decreased hormone levels, Dermatology” and had no further stimulating the body to intention of pursuing increase its hormone production.” Livingston's germ. Livingston, Alexander-Jackson, Diller She was puzzled as to why anyone would want to use —_ and Seibert had each drawn considerable fire from the a devastating substance like actinomycin D for the medical establishment, and, despite Livingston's subsequent treatment of cancer. Yet it was being done. _ persistent overtures towards him, there was no way he Even more disturbing was the way in which organised __ wanted in. medicine was responding to the hormonal disruption in By 1974, Dr Lida Mattman's Cell Wall Deficient Forms* he body caused by her cancer germ. had reconfirmed for Cantwell as well as for others that In 1966, Charles Huggins of the University of Chicago many bacteria, especially tuberculosis and the went to Stockholm, Sweden, to receive a Nobel Prize for mycobacteria, existed naturally in many forms—a cycle determining the effects of sex hormones on cancer tha of growth which involved "cell-wall-deficient forms" ad spread. Following this, the practice of castrating ranging from viral look-alikes to bacterial forms to cancer victims came into vogue. Consequently, granules and then on to larger globoid shapes. But someone came to the conclusion that if castration most physicians and laboratory scientists were being elped initially, any recurrence would be better treated taught little about cell-wall-deficient bacteria. by cutting out the adrenal glands, housed on top o Cantwell's silence threshold was exceeded forever each kidney. And since this never produced earth- when he again saw the cancer germ in the skin of the shaking results, a new procedure was devised to cu chest wall of a young woman who had lost both her hrough the nose and remove the pituitary, the master _ breasts to metastatic cancer. Removing this patient's gland of the body, lodged near the brain. skin lumps, Cantwell and his microbiologist colleague Virginia Livingston had established that abnorma Dan Kelso at first cultured Staphylococcus epidermidis, a ormonal stimulation was coming from the toxic common contaminant. But as their cultures aged, the materials and hormonal derangers manufactured by her — seeming staph cocci became large globoids, rods and germ. In response, American surgeons were chopping __yeast-like forms, with acid-fast TB-like granules out the glands of their cancer patients. everywhere. Florence Seibert joined Livingston's crusade in earnest in the 1960s, turning her cancer organism over to Dr Frank Dunbar, chief of laboratories at the Southwest Florida Tuberculosis Hospital in Tampa. Dunbar's conclusion: her multi-formed germ did not belong to his groups of known "atypical" mycobacteria, even though they did have some of the properties of the mycobacteria.“ Virginia Livingston had established that abnormal coming from the toxic materials and hormonal derangers manufactured by her germ. 40 * NEXUS hormonal stimulation was FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com