NATIONAL GALLERY
"THE" "CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1969/
THE CRITICS
BY JAK
**I still say Epstein's Genasis was a greater work of art. it took 50 of us to lift that.”
London "Karena Serance,
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a cure in
CANCER
sleeping sickness?
IN
the search for possible. new treatments for cancer we need a lively imagination as well
as a scientific outlook. It is impossible to say where the next move forward will be.
Who would have thought that Royal Jelly would find a place in the cancer story?
18 certainly the mosi It is, of course, not yet os- tablished as: part of cancer desirable of all the methods of treatment. But it is important treatment, for apart from other to note that the substance which considerations, so many patients the worker bees produce for have generalised cancer, which their queen is claimed to have demands graeml treatment. the property of protecting cCT- tain animals against cancer,
Not new
Research is also being done on an extract from the germ which causes sleeping sickness, in an attempt to find an enzyme which will kill cancer cells.
It is encouraging that we cheme- can speak of concer therapy.
This is the latest way of con trolling the disease. -
DAY IN THE LIFE
THE
THE Russian girl whom I shall call Olga did not greatly look forward to going home in the evenings. The darkness and dilapidation of the old wooden house where she lived was depressing and the host of green potted plants and 19th century bric-a-brae with which her mother (like every other Muscovite) cluttered up the available living space did not
improve matters.
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OF OLGA
There was, however, the consolation that it would not be long now before they moved into the nine-storey block of flats-one of the hundreds going up in Moscow-a few yards away. Their old house was scheduled for demolition, and until they moved out they did not have to pay any
rent.
least sonic price competition) rather than to the Stale shops, although there was only a difference of a few kopeks in the prices.
Here, written by special correspondeat John Griffiths from first-hand knowledge, is a fascinating glimpse of the problems and dreams of a Young Russian girl living in present-day Moscow working as the breadwinner of her family.
to the cinema (for 3 roubles), there would be a public park
on and children's playground, or to the park, so she put the long-playing claseleal re- cords that had cost her only noven roubles each at GUM.
Olga sat back on the edge of
Much of the ground floor of the new block would be given over to shops.
Imagination backs science in the great cancer fight: and today a British specialist tells of the astonishing quarters from which a magic formula may be won.
terfere with the chemical pro- certain hormones into the body cesses which are constantly of by diminishing the 'amounts going on within the cell and of certain hormones eircuinting The Idea that cancer cells which keep it alive.
In the body by removing m might be killed by chemical
gically the glands which pro- substances is not new.
If these are deranged the life duce thorn... of the cell is jeopardised - in Through the years, substances this way it will be possible to Kirch 43 belindonno. arsenic, kill cancer cells. mercury and lead have all been given to patients with cancer, but without success,
The work of the past can
not be compared. however,
with the magnituds of the
investigations being made in
Britain and other countries to
And what are called car-
cinostatio substances.
These drugs are being made In the research laboratories and tested for their actions atud potency with animal cancers. Any possible harmful effect on The animal sa a whule is very carefully studied.
It has been proved that some of these drugs are of use in the treatment of certain varieties of human cancer.
Problem
Hormones
It will be interesting to men-. tion some speelfe examples of cancer chemotherapy.
Leukaemia
seriosa
Thus in a number of wernis with cancer: of the broast the ovaries and adrenal glands are often removed, and in other women horionica are directly injected.
age and the stage of the diseaID In this treatment the patient's
are taken into account,
Very great benefit has been brought to many patientą by
disease which affeeds bath hormone treatment.
young and old. It
Hore Indood is ans encouraging: sigapost pointing to better malignant condition bound up methods of cancer control which we shall have In the with the group of CRUCETOUR
future.
A substance called Myleran was discovered in London which has a marked beneficial effect In the .chronic variety of leukaemia,
When?
When should
doctor?
T see
Any abnormal bleeding. A Another group of chemical lump or thickening in the breast the nitrogen or elsewhere, A sore, blister, substances called mustard compounds. are also, patch or blemish that doesn't being used, for malignant blood hent within three weeks. A discases, as well as some other lingering white patch in lips Dr faring of cancer.
-mouth, Changed bowel habita that persist for more than a Hormone treatment is include fortalgit, Lasting cough, hoarse.. ed in cancer chemotherapy, but ness of unusual wheezing. Per- it works in a different way sistent indigestion with loss of from the carcinostatic drugs.
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appetite. Any change in a mole." These symptoms do not neces-
This is an important begin- ning. But it is not yet possible to state where it will lead us, hor how long a time must elapse before a whole range of chemo- therapeutic compounds are treatment the attack is directly arily mean you have cancer. avaliable which will fill all on the cancer cell our ob. But they DO mean you should turms of cancer,
In the latter method of
jeet is to kill the malignant see your doctor immediately. cells without causing damage
What chanoch has a patient? What is happening in this to the normal cells of the body. In bormone treatment the objective is to control the can- cer from a distance.'
This was just as well, as
desire for more of the ordinary good things of life which people managing the household
countries take for in other budget was no easy task
granted. for Olga. Her mother re-
But, despite the not very high ceived a pension of 450
"Yes," she thought to herself, but ever-improving standard of Mother, she knew, hankered roubles, a month, but her
And living, many Russians will argue the bed in the living room and "a definite improvement, After the days when she had father was dead and both two good salaries coming into
dreamed about the
flat. It will get belter every day as the necessity of the present fold of medicine today? tow her two young brothers the house and only the twins For a start she would have a the young folk grow up, Ivan priorities convincingly.
t radio only a cheap one,
to work and wages goes at school. Her twin to look after. She would pass
roubles. And with increased prosperity. brother, Ivan, was studying where a
the poultry all course, at 200 Jongingly by
perhaps one day, who knows, chicken that would at the university.
the thousands make a meal for three or four she could join
Muscovites who had cost 23 roubles and
u slagle of egy one rouble and 20 kopeks.
telovision,
though SUW Do prospect in the secable future of ever having 2,600 roubles to spare.
were
He spent all his scholarship grant in renting a room from a family who ilved near his faculty, and buying his
food. No help from quarter.
TOO OLD
Own
that
With her own salary of 575 roubles as a factory cleaner, that meant just over 1,000 roubles a month for everything. (£1 sterling 11,20 roubles approx.).
This month 14-year-old Gregory at least would nced a new coat. She knew where she could get one of rather cheap quality for 340 roubles-nearly two weeks' pay!
Brond, at least, was not too dear at 1 ruble 25 kopeks for a baton loaf. Potatoes vorled from good quality at 2 roubles 50 kopeks a kilo to old ones at She rouble 20 Корочка usually bought the old ones.
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she forc→
EXPENSIVE
riso
as
}
For cancer of the SKIN, very good. BREAST, seventy - Avo per cent well, five years later. If treated in Stage One. TON- The main problem is to And This idea is a new one and GUE, good if treated very early, I which part
nucleus
has proved valuable in certain STOMACH, results poor, LUNG, cytoplasm (and which part of forms of the disease cancer the present position is serious, these structures) is vulnerable of the breast and prostate gland
drug.
Nor, generally speaking, do Russians realise or regret
the extent to which they are 'de prived of personal liberty.
The apologists would despise the action of a carcinostatic are excellent examples, "There's more to buy in the such liberty a ngment of shops every day, too--clothes, Western imagination, to be re- food, and even u few huxuries Jected out of hand. Their soul- rests on the to be destroying case But none of them scem She had to reckon, too, on nearly up to the standard of sublimation of individual liberty they what foreign visitors have. to the aims of that gross entity, paying rent again when
flat. 1t
the State. moved into the new
come would
about 120 "Even if they do improve it roubles a month, but for that will be hard to know what to
to
Apples at nine roubles a kilo she would have hot water at Zr. were too dear at present, but 90k a person, 3r. 15k, for elec the price would fall later in the tricity and gas, central heating season. Vegetables were not so, and a service lift,
seasonal by much affected
thal fluctuations" now
store- houses had been built to ensure steady supplies.
TOSS-UP
Nevertheless, on her budget
it was a toss-up between a bunch of radishes or a bunch of carrots nt Her mother was growing too
one mouble cach,
old to be of much use in
She settled for the carrots, the Lought some onlens, tomatoca house and Olgs had to do most
and cucumber ind made her of the work when she came home. But at least she got the
way home. shopping done for her and AD eye was kept on the children when they were at home.
Olga's mother was Biurowa shopper, too, and would go 10 the nearby Tishinski mark to do the shopping' (where there was al
On the way she stopped by the mobile tank that sold kvass, a refreshing drink made from fermented bread and tasting sightly of igs, and filled up her litre jug for 60 kopeks.
After supper Olga decided the weather was too wet to go
choose, for the onis adverse POLICE STATE ments we ever soe are the few on the matchboxes, and they are
all for State
Since
returned from Russia expensive and special many people have asked me if products.
wunder 1 MW any evidence of police
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ex-
secution. Of course, I did not- nothing although this means either way.
To a Western eye 34 square what we'll do when we have State activities, or political ger- metres for six people (two more time and more money; we loagers) might not be a lot. A can't go on fighting for Com- visitor from the West might munism for ever." notice, too, that the flats were built without any frames, that This, then, is a picture
What did worry me far more the bricks were not properly Russian homes at the two
was the fact that there was no lald or the cemety filled in, tremes of a problem which the need for any visible manifesta-
USSR
tackling energetically, tion of them). The people have Yet to Olga it would be I base it on my many Visits and already submitted finally to paradise after the old wooden meals in Russian houses and Communist rule. house, and a paradise that had fats of all kinds, from the two- token only two months to build and-a-half-room wood and cor- Communism is firmly in the rugated iron atlet where a saddle for a long time, and the ^ bathroom and kitchen to mother
and son sleep in the Free World's task is to live with themselves wus an improvement one small room which is also it and yet prevent it spreading
Dli quite recently-bullt flats, their living-room, to the few further, and, even if the decoration was fats of which the Government not very tasteful, it cost nothing, boasts and which I have de-
Olga's only regret was that
scribed.
The rentode hope for the future lles, I think, in the days when the Soviet people's mate- she would no longer have the Amongst these friendly people, rial needs are satisfied, when small patch of garden from who have no equals for hos- their standard of living is equal which she had gathered flowers pitality in my experience (ex- to that of the United States of and a few vegetables. Instead, cept partops for the Afghans), America. Then, perhaps, they where their house had stood, I detected firstly a preoccupying will what more than slogans.
Hormone Treatment is design- We know that substances like ed to alter the hormone balance nitrogen mustard and urethane of the body in such a way as have the power to arrest the to make the cancerous disease division of the nucleus of cells. inactive.
Next week's instal-
ment: Best chance for a
We know other substances This can be brought about patient with cancer. which have the power to in- by the direct administration of
Could it be Roundworms?
Microscopic roundworm eggs are everywhere. In vegetables, fruit, water. Even in the best ordered families there is always the danger of infection. And children are most liable to attack. They don't realise the dangers in uncooked foods and contaminated water,
Happily, there's a simple, proved remedy
'ANTEPAR
TRADE MARK
R
ONS
One dose of "ANTEFAR' giti vid, of roundworms in a dai Pleasant-tasting "Antrax" should be taken at bedilme, Then roundworms are expelled the next day - easily and naturally) "ANTmPAR' in always quick, sure, wafe. It causer no pain or sicknes. Not even with small children.
Make "ANTIPAR' a routine family Habit. Give everyone one dose every three manaiba. And.be sure your fially are always free from roundwognal
"ANTEPAR" the one-dose, one-day roundwormi remedy “... Assept only original packing. › Motrio all gudenini
JOHN D. HUTCHISONS.
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