What Happened to this Promising Study?

37antiques

Not very techy lately, so I'm sorry if the link isn't live.  It is a study from 1934 by Columbia University, seems rats would create a substance to remove cancer cells.  If the whole paper shows up, the title is Report New Discovery as Big Help for Cancer War.  It is on page 1 and continued on page 2.

Seems like we would have the technology to reproduce whatever the rats make?  I mean, we do clone things and can get exact DNA now.   

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KHkuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BIYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2828,2922006

luv_gardening

I don't know if this quote is true or how to check it, but it seems relevant.

Between 1990 and 2005, there were 920 putative anticancer compounds that underwent clinical trials in humans (so these are drugs that passed beyond in vitro (cell culture) and in vivo (mice) scrutiny and into human subjects) in the USA. Of these, only 32 were found to be effective. Many progressed as far as late-stage clinical testing in humans before being found to be ineffective.  

http://www.vetoncologyconsults.com/VOC%208.pdf