The Microbiology of Cancer Compendium

This Compendium is a distillation of the writings of a great many dedicated and competent scientists who have spent uncounted hours in the pursuit of knowledge concerning the cancer problem. Each one has left a noteworthy contribution which, if heeded, would have greatly advanced the battle against the common foe, cancer. Instead, their discoveries were rejected without scientific objectivity. Politics misguided and science wrongly directed are reaping the ugly reward of thousands of innocent deaths. In this Compendium we take you back many decades in some cases to the work of the early writers who meticulously demonstrated the presence of a pleomorphic microorganism to be the etiological agent in cancer. Since cancer does not behave like other infections, their discoveries were ignored. But the words of truth could not be stilled. There were always those in each decade who rediscovered the truth about cancer and tried to proclaim it anew to an unlistening world. Thirty years ago a physician, through a series of unpremeditated circumstances, was led to the rediscovery of the cancer microbe. She discovered it could be cultured in suitable media from malignant tumors fresh from surgery. This microbial growth was obtained hundreds of times, demonstrating that its presence could not be an accidental contamination as her skeptical peers insisted. She made a great contribution at this time which was to prove undeniably that the microbe belongs to the Actinomycetales, the family of tuberculosis and leprosy. It was demonstrated to be acid-fast, carbol-fuchsin dye retaining, and thus a new classification was established opening the door to fresh horizons in laboratory and clinical research. This person is Virginia Caspe Livingston Wheeler. The dedication on June 2, 1949 of the Presbyterian Hospital Branch of Rutgers University at Newark, N.J. for the Study of Proliferative Diseases with Dr. Virginia Wuerthele-Caspe (Livingston-Wheeler) as Director marked the beginning of the study of many animal tumors as microbial disease caused by an acid fast organism. The book, Cancer, A New Breakthrough, details the history of this laboratory and its research. It was at this time that Dr. E. A. Jackson, a microbiologist, and Dr. Lawrence Weld Smith, a pathologist, joined the staff. The grants were substantial and the work progressed well. Also close ties were established with Drs. William and Irene Diller, of the Institute for Cancer Research, Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Irene Diller had previously noted the occurrence of fungus-like forms in tumors of animals. She was to confirm the etiology of the tumors, the P. Cryptocides in mice, their predictability, and their prevention. Always VLW was interested in the human host. Her great concern was for the helpless, dying patient. The long hours of laboratory work were but a means to discover ways to treat the cancer patient. 5 A large service of cancer patients at Presbyterian Hospital was assigned to her. The tools for treatment·were largely ineffectual, consisting only of surgery, radiation and early chemotherapy. Day after day she attended the sick while they died, then returned in every spare moment to the laboratory to seek answers. The microbe was always there, in man and animals. There was nothing sure or promising for man except the knowledge that the cancer disease was an infection caused, in large part at least, by the ingestion of infected food. Initial methods for preparing the human vaccines were to come much later after Jackson visited Crofton in England. Also the association with George Clark and his reports of the Glover and Scott methods led to new hope. However, there were many flaws in these vaccine techniques which were not to be corrected for a number of years. Simplified culture media, recognition of the acid-fast staining properties, and the production of HCG by the P. Cryptocides now lead to certain identification of the microbe not previously obtainable. Prior to these years Virginia Livingston Wheeler reported a microbe similar to the cancer one in scleroderma and in Wilson's disease as well as in several other collagen diseases. Meanwhile the Newark Laboratory received a great deal of recognition marked by an award of $750,000 from the Black-Stevenson Trust for excellence in cancer research. However, when these funds were diverted from microbiological research and were misappropriated for the addition of a wing to the hospital in order to house a new and powerful cobalt machine, VLW closed the laboratory. VLW disheartened and discouraged left for California where she eventually went into practice in San Diego, California. In the intervening years, some reports reached the scientific and lay public concerning the infectious nature of cancer. Diller, Jackson, and VLW occasionally reported some of their separate findings. In 1969 the Livingston Medical Clinic was established. It was intended to be an Allergy-Immunology group but soon became largely devoted to the study of the microbiology of cancer and its primarily clinical applications. At long last VLW felt free to use her years of accumulated knowledge of the microbiology of cancer to help human beings. Fifteen years ago in 1962 a friend, complained to VLW that mice were treated but nothing was done for people, for instance her husband, a dentist, who had a malignant widespread inoperable thymoma. There must be something that could be done for him. VLW isolated the acid-fast microbe from his tissues and directed a local laboratory to make an autogenous vaccine for him. Along with a healthful diet provided by his wife, the doctor proceeded to recover completely and has had no recurrence of his tumor to the present day. A few patients, most with a poor prognosis, came from around the country,stayed in San Diego and received vaccine. Amazingly, a number of these people recovered. Then Dr. Don Nebeker of Covina, Calif. began to cooperate with VLW. A group of twenty patients were treated by vaccines made by VLW. The patients had a variety of tumors in various stages. Most of them greatly improved and many have remained well to the present time. 6 When the Livingstons first opened their San Diego Medical Clinic they were befriended by Mr. Joseph De Silva, head of the Retail Clerks Union of Los Angeles. After a little boy he had sent them recovered from a sarcoma of the wrist without the loss of his arm, Mr. De Silva hosted the Livingstons many times on his TV series on health which he presented every Sunday evening on Channel 13. From these beginnings the Clinic grew and continues to grow each month because there is a desperate need for cancer treatment based on sound physiological properties which promote the healing processes of the body rather than the destruction of the tumor itself. It was soon obvious that one cannot treat the result of a disease, the cancer, without treating the basic disease itself, the immunological failure in the face of an infectious process created by the microbical agent, the Progenitor Cryptocides. The following handbooks for physicians and patients amply present the present therapy for restoration of the immune status to the immune deficient patient. In spite of the continued improvement of the patients treated at the Livingston Medical Clinic, there was still no marked acceptance of the microbial theory of cancer by the general medical public. Interested lay groups like Cancer Victims and Friends, the Metabology group, the Preventive Medicine symposiums kept alive the concepts. However, in 1972 VLW discovered that P. Cryptocides produces choriogonadotropin (HCG) in the test-tube. This discovery was published in 1974 and confirmed by Cohen and Stramp in 1976. This proved to be a momentous discovery which immediately gave credence and stature to the entire microbial theory. It is particularly significant in the light ofthe recent tremendous interest in recombinant biochemistry of nucleic acids. In addition to the source of production ofHCG in the cancer cell, without which it cannot exist, VLW was able to find an agent in nature which neutralizes HCG, the Vitamin analog Abscisic Acid, present in many natural foodstuffs, readily available to all. In addition, the modification of the P. Cryptocides to produce a universal vaccine for cancer of animals and man is now under investigation. The mouse studies indicate that vaccination plus Abscisic Acid virtually prevents implantation and development of tumors in experimental mice. These studies carried out by John Majnarich of the MioMed Research Laboratory of Seattle are reported in the Laboratory Procedures. They have been confirmed in over 1800 mice. Field studies in chickens are in process at present. HCG can now be produced in large amounts for the induction and study of cancer and for immunization procedures in prevention of cancer. A new day of light and hope has now arrived. We can only express gratitude that our long-continued efforts are being blessed day by day by our Divine Creator who has guided us in the spirit of love and compassion to aid the helpless cancer patient who appears at our doorstep imploring humane and compassionate treatment.