Cancer Cure Criteria

Through physical chemistry cancer will be cured, believes Dr. Ellice McDonald of Philadelphia. The University of Pennsylvania has agreed with him sufficiently to make him director of its Cancer Research Laboratories. In Science last week, Dr. McDonald, 54, expounded his approach to cancer.

First he pictures the living cell (normal or cancerous) and its system: 1) nucleus, 2) protoplasm, 3) semipermeable cell membrane, 4) environment (blood and tissue juices). From its environment the cell gets its energy-producing materials. Through its environment it gets rid of its wastes. Glycogen, or animal sugar, is almost the sole source of cell energy. In normal cells half the absorbed glycogen is oxidized, half turned to lactic acid. In cancerous cells, for every 13 glycogen molecules, twelve split up into lactic acid and one is oxidized.

Other cancer facts: Cancer blood is more alkaline than normal blood, and the more alkaline the blood the more quickly comes death. Cancer victims have more sugar in their blood, and the more sugar the quicker death. Cancer cells have relatively more potassium and less calcium than normal cells, and the greater such difference the more virulent the disease.

To cure cancer then, Dr. McDonald believes, conditions must be produced which will 1) normalize the break-up of body sugar; 2) normalize the blood's alkaline state; 3) reduce high blood sugar; 4) increase the cell's calcium; 5) reduce the cell's potassium.

Dr. McDonald's expectations: "These criteria are few, but at present these are the sole criteria for a cancer cure and the future will lay down more and more specifications until these become so obvious to some genius, who will say that with those specifications the answer can only be one thing to satisfy all the requirements."

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