Cancer History at M.D. Anderson Hospital

In the 1950s Most Cancers Defeat Sui eons, Radiotherapists, Hematologists Medical Oncologists Do not Exist 

The high incidence of fatal neutropenic septic shock after combination chemotherapy given in the 1950s-60s has substantially receded. Newly established cancer institutes in Florida (North Ridge Hospital, Ft. Lauderdale St. Joseph s Hospital, Tampa) invited this author (JGS) for discussions on the incidence and treatment of chemotherapy-associated septic infections (Howe CD Sinkovics JG. Life-threatening infections. Project M26/gm9. Research Report, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital 1970 1972. Sinkovics JG Smith JP. Bacteroides and Salmonella septicemia. Cancer 1969 24 631-6 1970 25 663-71). 

Sinkovics JG. Infectious Complications of Cancer. J Inter-American Medicine 1979 4 10-14 In The Immunobiology and Immunopharmacology of Endotoxins. H. Friedman A. Szentivanyi, editors. Plenum, New York, 1986 269-279. Sinkovics JG. Medical Oncology An Advanced Course, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2 ed. pp 1557-1738, 1986). ShuUenberger CC, Leavens ME, Sinkovics JG. 

Viruses in malignancy-associated encephalopathies. Project M23/gm20. Research Report The University of Texas MD Anderson Hospital, pp 455-6 1974-5. 

Natural IFN-alpha for cancer biotherapy. Dick (Frank) Rauscher for the American Cancer Society and Mary Lasker released funds in the 1970s for flie purchase and investigational use in cancer therapy of a human natural (leukocyte) IFN-alpha preparation. The natural (leukocyte) interferon was prepared hy Kari Cantell at the State Semm Institute and Central Public Health Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland, and was used first by Hans Strander at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, most prominently, for the elimination of subclinical metastases from osteosarcoma of the limbs, after the surgical removal of the primary 

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