LISTS DISCOVERIES CREDITED TO RUSSIAN ONCOLOGY

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• Publication Date: November 14, 1950
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12 oct 1950
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LISTS DISCOVERIF;S CREDITED TO RUSSIAN ONCOLOGY
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Russian scientists have,~since the middle of the last .:entury, defended
original and entirely contemporary views in `:tee field of oncology, and must be
given due credit both for developing this branch of science on a materialistic
basis and for combating the reactionary theories of Virchow and Cohnheim, M, M.
Rudnev, M. A. Novinskiy, A, Vysokovich, and S. M. Voronin have created the para-
sitic theory of tumors, and V, V. Podvysotskiy for the Pirst time postulated
that malignant tumors are produced by viruses, As opposed to idealistic the-
ories, which are based exclusively on speculative assumptions and which ex-
plained malignization in a vitalistic manner (transition of cells into a wild
state, loss of altruism by cells and acquisition of egotism, violence and anar-
chy of growth), the Russian school of oncology dealt with problems connected
with the gene is of tumors oa the basis of experimental date., To the Ruesisn
school of oncology also belongs the credit for first developing and applying
chemotherapeutic methods of treating tumors, particularly skin cancer,
Progressive views quite generally held by Russian oncologists at about the
time of World War I on the existence of a living causative factor of tumors have
met with energetic opposition bcth abroad and at home. This is reflected in
N. N. Petrov's manual of oncology (1910 - 1926), which treats the genesis of
tumors from Virchow's viewpoint and does not mention at all the original dis-
coveries made by Russian oncologists. Unfortunately, Petrov has not changed
his views even now, and since 1948 has become an adherent of~Hertwig's ideal-
istic,theory, which.assumes that a new race of cells comes into existence: as a
result of irritation. The author of this article published in 1928 the 'first
experimental investigations proving that tumors are caused by viruses and dem-
onstrating that tumors can be transmitted by noxicellular filtrates of tumors
rather than through transplantation of cells.
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Subse:,uent experiments on the transportation of cancer by the blood of
mice and .likewise b ultrafiltrates of cancer (with the filtrai:ion carried out
through colloidal dialysis2~ bags) and of sarcoma of rats and mice (185 fil-
tered tumors per 31 experiments) enabled us in 1934 to advance a theory of
the formation of malignant tumor cells from the elementary particles of a Spe-
cific parasite which has virus stages. Prof F. b1. Brinker (1935), A. A. Bogc-
molets (1937), and later on, N. F. Gamaleya, recognized the significance of
our work on filtrates. In 1935, tumors were classified e.s virus diseases by
the decision of a special meeting held at the Academy of Sciences USSR.
It is well known that nobody has yet succeeded in transforming normal
cells into tumor cells in a tissue culture either by means of a cancer genic
substance or a virus, nor has anyone observed the malignization of cells around
the periphery of a growing tumor. On the othex hand, experimental oncology
has accumulated plentiful data showing that elementary particles of the virus-
parasite constitute the etiological factor of tumors. These elementary parti-
cles were discovered by us in cell-free ?iltrates and ultrafiltrates of +.umors
as early as 1933, and similar results were aleo obtained by Pashen and Malomos.
The elementary particles forming the causative factor of certain tumors could
be propagated in cultures cultivated in a~?tificial media?7,
It has been shown in a number of investigations that tumors can be trans-
mitted by parasitic worms, insects, and apparently also rodents, while conta-
gion as a reuult of direct contact with a patient does not arise.
In 1946, Prof M. A. Morozov established the presence cf elementary parti-
cles of the causative factor in rabbit fibroma, and in 1949 in breast cancer
of mice belonging to cancer-s!~sceptible strains.
In present, the elementary particles of rabbit myxoma, of human lympho-
granuloma inguinale, and of rat sarcoma have been cultivated. Experiments car-
ried out by M. K. Ebert, M. F. Runova, and L. A, Zil'ber confirmed the existence
of antibodies against the tumor virus in the blood of diseased animals. M. F.
Runova and I have proven the presence of a toxin in recent cancerous tumors of
rats. As N, F. Gamaleya had already stated in his Medical Microbiology in 19!+3,
the virus origin of tumors has been definitely proven.
The Russian school of oncology, which was founded by M. M. Rudnev in 1870,
has made a very valuable contribu;;ion to world science.
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