The Westmount examiner, 10 avril 1959, Cahier 1

[" RSA RE SE T.4Research on stomach cancer, nd ¥ XE 1 À CANCER FIGHT CONTINUES: Andrew Armstrong (centre) .eo-chilrman of the Canadian Cancer wat watches Dr.D.R.Webster, left, surgeon-in-chief, Royal Victoria Hospital, and Dr.8.C.Skoryna, project director of the Soclety Campaign, department of experimental surgery at McGill, conduct tests $0 determine the presence of stomach cancer in gastric juices, Society.This particular work is financed by the Canadian Cancer e Patience yields dividends in McGill cancer discovery After five years of experimental work, two West- \u2018mount dottors of the McGill department of Experimental Surgery have developed a method of inducing cancer in the stomachs of rats, The Canadian Cancer Society revealed today.Dr.D.R.Webster, 565 Roslyn avenue, surgeon-in-chief, Royal Victoria Hospital, and professor of surgery at McGill University, and Dr.S, C.Skoryna, 4459 Sherbrooke street west, project director of McGills department of experimental surgery, have perfected a technique which makes possible new studies of stomach cancer that is responsible for 25 per cent of all cancer deaths in humans.Research on the project was financed by the Canadian Cancer Society who are currently staging a campaign velop in the stomach, as well as factors that enhance stomach cancers \u2014 such as types of foods, drugs and other substances.More important, the investigators will be able to test substances that inhibit tumor growth, and the effects of precancerous lesions -\u2014 .such as stomach ulcers.The effects of alcohol on the development of stomach cancer can also be studied Dr.Webster suggests.All that have been carried on so far .indicate that alcohol is innocent of any involvement with \u2018stomach cancer.with a minimum goal in Montreal of $300,000.3 \"Collard, Theriault win letters awards Two Westmounters have been announced among top winners in the 1958 Provincial Literary and Scientift« Contest.Edgar Andrew Collard, Sherbrooke street west, editor-in-chief of the Montreal Gazette, and author Yves Theriault, Victoria avenue, have each received $600 prizes.\u201cCanadian Yesterdays,\u201d by Collard shared first prize honors in the English section devoted to moral and political sciences with Marius Barbeau of Ottawa Yves Theriault was declared ex-aequo first prize winner for his book entitled \u201cAgaguk.\u201d Dr.Skoryna explained, has been - greatly handicapped in the past by the fact that it never occurs in the lower animals such as cats, dogs, rats and mice.Scientists were able to induce cancer of the skin and liver almost at will but up until now attempts to induce stomach cancer had \u2018been unsatisfactory.\u201cWe've been working on this for more than five years,\u201d Dr.Skoryna explained.\u201cWe tried feeding carcinogens (cancer- causing substances) , injecting them into the stomach walls, painting them on the stomach, injury and everything else under the sun.Nothing worked.\u201d Two years azo the research team began experimenting with cotton threads soaked in a powerful carcinogen called Methylcholanthrene.These were implanted in the wall of the stomach and fixed there with sutures.Gradually they sank into the wall, After this was repeated three times with each rat eight percent of them developed stomach cancer.- This method of inducing tumors, Dr.Skoryna explains, will enable investigators to study and vice-president respectively of the manner in\u2019 which tumors de- the Montreal Rotary Club.MATE RS A LS Next week\u2019s weathe Rotary appoints 1959 executives Harold F.Kerrigan, 5 Hudson avenue, Westmount, and Fred N.Dundas 359 Kindersley avenue, have been appointed\u2018 president RHONE \u2019 By ERIC NEAL _ April 11 to 18 Bright and relatively warm to begin the week with flurries in the north and occasional