The selenide treatment of cancer.
The selenide treatment of cancer.
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DOI:
10.1002/bjs.1800218408
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发表时间:
1934-04-01
影响因子:
9.6
通讯作者:
Todd, AT
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作者:
Todd, AT
The significancc of this finding was not grasped at first, for a good deal of cxperimental work was necessary. It was found that massive dosage of D4S-that is, the largest doses tolcrablc by mail or animal-gave thc same response, a marked and prompt acceleration of neoplastic growth. Possible explanations were:(1) That radiation had in some way intensified thc action of the colloid and so converted a small into a large dose: from the work of others and ourselves2 this result must be due to the selenium, for radi a t’ion after lead colloids free from selenium does not give this result. Or (2) That the presence of the selenide had converted a relatively small into a relatively large dose of radiation; for nil-experience is that, with the exception of a few types of specially sensitive growths, intensive radiation also has a stimulating action on neoplastic growth. The second of these hypotheses appearccl to be the more attractive. and steps were taken to make another selenium colloid which mould be more amenable to combined colloid-radiation therapy. We found that by reducing selenium dioxide in the prcsence of my sulphur colloid, selenium was t,‘1 k en up and a double colloid of sulphur and seleniuni resulted. We call this ncw colloid ‘SSe’, and it will bc liberated for general u\e on publication of this article.It may be asked: Why so much talk about colloids? To my mind the disease cancer is closely related to thc granulomata, the connecting link being lymphadenoma. Partial proof has been afforded recently that the latter disease is due to a virus. I had become convinced long before this that cancer was an infective disease and probably due to growth stimulation from the presence of a virus. I admit that final proof is not yet attained, but if thc evidence is weighed without bias, there is little casc for any other conception. Space does not permit me to go into this question more fully. I considered, then, that cancer was an infective disease and that a defence mechanism of mesoblastic tissues was present. but that this defence always failed. This tissue I called ‘junction tissue ‘. and I gave some proof that chronicity and radio-sensitivity of a cancer werc. as a rule, proportional to the amount of this junction ti~ sue.~ It consists of fibroblasts. lymphocytes, plasma cells, eosinophils, basophils, and macrophage cells. From our knowledge of defence mechanisms in other diseases wc should regard the macrophages as the key cells, as they appear to govern the function of the others. These macrophages can only be influenced by colloids; they engulf any electro-negative colloidal particle. If the particle is incapable of being broken down by the enzymes of the macrophage, it is simply stored or passed away into the lymph channels. But if the particle can be cheiqically altered by the cell enzymes, there are several possibilities: some innocuous compound may result; a substance poisonous to the cell which has produced it may be formed; a compound which stimulates the metabolism of the cell may result, Thus a colloid is essential, and intravenous administration will be necessary for certain access to the macrophage system.