RT Journal
T1 NAtional cancer institute study of krebiozen
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1959
FD April 11
VO 169
IS 15
SP 1759
OP 1759
DO 10.1001/jama.1959.03000320061015
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03000320061015
AB The American Cancer Society statement dated March 9, 1959, which appears in this issue of The Journal, page 1790, urged that the Krebiozen Research Foundation accept the proposal of the National Cancer Institute of the U. S. Public Health Service to test the controversial cancer substance, Krebiozen, in "a manner acceptable to the scientific community." This statement reviews the history of Krebiozen; it clarifies the issues and presents the society's position regarding it.Since the Krebiozen Research Foundation, its spokesmen, and advocates have "long claimed they have a useful tool against cancer," the American Cancer Society indicated that "it is then their clear duty to thousands of cancer patients to cooperate with the National Cancer Institute or any group of competent, objective scientists in an objective test of the drug." Furthermore, the society indicated that the "delays" which have recently been given so much publicity by the Krebiozen Foundation "are