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age 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1980 Cancer advance reported United Press International WASHINGTON — Two Houston scientists report initial success in dogs with a new approach to breast cancer treatment that combines safe doses of an anti-cancer drug with a new process that apparently liber ates natural cancer killers. They say the net result is a magni fied tumor-killing effect that acts quickly and spares healthy tissue. Drs. David S. Terman and Wil liam T. Shearer of the Baylor College of Medicine emphasized, however, their pioneering fusion of two classes of anti-cancer weapons is in early stages of development. They said there is a big jump from dogs to hu mans. Nevertheless, their report Mon day to the annual meeting of the American Federation for Clinical Research stimulated considerable interest among some of the top re searchers in the field of cancer im munology. If subsequent work confirms the findings, the two-stage attack on can cer would be particularly attractive for cancer therapy because it uses the body’s own immune system com ponents and drug doses so low they do not produce harmful side effects. Shearer said the first successes with a single drug acting in concert with the technique that directs the body’s immune defenses against can cer will be followed up to see if other drugs alone or in combination might be even more effective. Terman reported in the February issue of the Journal of Immunology the immune system manipulation process alone produced significant tumor shrinkage in two thirds of the dogs in which it was tried. The technique involves proces sing the animal’s blood to free pro teins called antibodies that are asso ciated with specific cancers. Anti bodies are key members of the body’s defenses against foreign sub stances, but their anti-cancer effect apparently is normally blocked. While Terman was developing the system to unleash the antibodies against tumor cells, Shearer was ex perimenting separately in tissue cul tures with antibodies and the stan dard anti-cancer drug cytosine arabi- noside, also known as ARA-C. The two researchers then put their findings together and developed the new system. The blood processing technique seems to free antibodies to attack the tumor cells, and at the same time stimulates the cells’ meta bolic processes so they take in ARAt C. .rr , X; U The ARC-C inhibits the cancer cell’s growth mechanism and the cell dies. 26.2-meter Rosie Ruiz run slated United Press International MOLINE, III. — It’s a race you can run and win — and not even be there. A local radio station and the Amer ican Cancer Society are sponsoring the First Annual Rosie Ruiz 26.2- meter run to benefit the cancer soci ety, a spokesman said Monday. The race begins at 8:30 a.m. Satur day when a lone runner from WQUA radio begins a 6.2 mile run, arriving downtown at 9:30 a.m. As the runner approaches the fin ish line, the remainder of the en trants are invited to jump into the race 26.2 meters from the finish line. Everyone finishes first. And all finishers get a T-shirt showing they were first in the Rosie Ruiz 26.2- meter run. The entry fee is $2 per person. Individuals can send it in and not run at all — or they can show up with the $2 and get a T-shirt. The race is named after Ruiz, who was declared the winner of the Bos ton Marathon, only to have her title taken away. Other contestants said they had not seen her before the last few miles of the race. Zoo gains six snakes for one United Press International MONROE, La. —The Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo, which lost its male cobra to his hungry female friend after they mated, has received a return of six wriggling baby snakes on its illfated investi- ment. 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