GORDEYEV'S LIQUID FOR THE TREATMENT OF SKIN CANCER

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700030361-6
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 361
• Publication Date: December 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION ,tURN
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
CD NO.
COUNTRY
USSR
DATE OF
INFORMATION
1951
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
Scientific - Medicine, skin-cancer treatment
Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
Moscow
Jul 1951
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LANGUAGE
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With respect to skin cancer, the picture in the USSR differs greatly from
that in capitalistic countries where free medictl treatment is unobtainable. In
the USSR mortality from skin cancer amounts to only 0.1% of the total of cancer
deaths.
Former methods of treating cancers gave way to surgery and later to irra-
diation with X-ray and radium. However, these treatments are very expensive and
effective only if the cancerous growth does not extend too deeply.
V. G. Gordeyev, Candidate of Medical Sciences, who was awarded a 1951
Stalin Prize for this work, developed a new method of treatment for skin can-
cer. He combined a number of caustics and anesthetics into one preparation,
Gordeyev's Liquid, which, when injected into the cancerous growth, destroys it,
also acting on the surrounding healthy tissues in a similar manner as the bio-
stimulants secreted in tissue therapy following application of Academy V. P..
Filatov's method. In this preparation, the destructive action of one drug is
supplemented by the stimulating action of others. In 24 hours after injection
of the liquid into the tumor, a scab forms which falls off after 5 - 6 days..
The scar which remains after disappearance of the tumor heals rapidly. The
treatment is painless; in fact the tissues are made insensitive. It is necessary
to conserve the high salt concentration of the preparation for rapid and deep
destructive action on the diseased tissues.
Experiments with the new treatment are conducted in clinics of the USSR under
observation of the Ministry of Public Health. Excellent results have been
reported, even in cases of long-standing, neglected skin cancer. The remedy is
also very effective in the treatment of slowly healing skin tumors other than
cancer, tuberculosis of the skin, leishmaniasis, and other diseases.
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