HELPING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
SPOT CANCER:
CHICAGO IMMUNOLOGIST
USES T/Tn ANTIGEN' TREATMENT

From The Cancer Chronicles #22
© July 1994 by Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.

[I got so excited when I heard about Springer's work that I hopped the next plane to Chicago. Tragically, Dr. Springer died in 1998.--Ed.]

He is a maverick scientist, harnessing the power of the immune system to fight malignant disease. For over 20 years, he has taken on the cancer establishment. Over the years, he has found a few friends in high places, who have promoted his work as an alternative to conventional treatments.

Lawrence Burton? Stanislaw Burzynski? Hans Nieper? Hardly.

This maverick is Georg F. Springer, MD, and in some senses he is as `establishment' as you can get. His Heather Margaret Bligh Cancer Research Laboratories is based at the prestigious UHS/The Chicago Medical School in North Chicago, IL. He has published scores of articles on cancer. He doesn't even charge for the treatment. Yet he has garnered his share of controversy.

Heather Bligh was Springer's beautiful wife. When she was found to have metastatic breast cancer in the 1970s, Springer devised an immunological treatment for her. Although she died in 1980, she lived six-and-a-half years after being given a one-year prognosis by her conventional doctors.

Springer has some advantages that other pioneers might envy. He funds his laboratory in part with his own inheritance from the famous German publishing company, Springer-Verlag.The Chicago researcher and his work were recently the focus of a laudatory, 11-page article in Life devoted to breast cancer (5/94) [see box]. "Springer's results are startling," Life concluded.

According to NCI, for example, the five-year survival rates for breast cancer (conventionally called a `cure') using surgery, radiation and/or chemotherapy is 41 percent for Stage III patients and 10 percent for Stage IV (with distant metastases).

Dr. Springer, however, has published the following five-year survival results in 20 patients:

Five Year Survival of Dr. Springer's Patients

In addition, 7 more patients have lived three to four-and-a-half years after diagnosis, and are all well. After ten years, the survival figures of women receiving conventional treatment drop by another half. Springer's group does remarkably better—79 percent (11/14) have survived 10 years. Ten-year results are:

Ten Year Survival of Springer's Patients

One of these is calcium phosphate, to which the T and Tn antigens stick (adsorb); the other is the standard Salmonella typhi vaccine, which is used to aid recognition of the antigens. Salmonella typhi itself contains T and Tn antigens, and stimulates the immune system.

"All human cancers differ from their parental healthy cells in the fine architecture of their cell surfaces," says Springer. This is a result of the cancer cell's incomplete assembly of normal cell membrane structures. The body's defense system naturally wants to fight against these incomplete abnormal structures the way it would invading viruses and microbes, because it recognizes them as something foreign. But it needs help, which the T/Tn antigen injections provide.

Springer's treatment basically augments the fighting power of the body by presenting it with fresh doses of a cancer-like antigen derived from normal cells. Patients entering the program must have at least a Stage IIB breast cancer, and must enter no sooner than two weeks after surgery for cancer, but no later than three years after discovery of the primary tumor.

If they are also receiving chemotherapy, they will have to wait three to four weeks after drug treatment. If they are receiving radiotherapy, they must wait one to three months after completing radiation.

Initially, patients receive T/Tn antigen treatments at six week intervals. This interval is then extended but must be continued ad infinitum.

"We have never seen any undue or general reactions to T/Tn antigen injections," says Springer, "but should one occur, treatment will be suspended."

Springer's innoculations cost about $1,500 per year—about one-hundredth the price of bone marrow transplantation. About one-third of insurance companies will reimburse for the treatment. Patients are encouraged to make a donation to support the work of the laboratory, but all indigent patients are treated at no charge.

"Our main goal," Springer told us, "is to prevent the growth of very early cancers and eliminate them. We have some promising preliminary results in that regard."

SPRINGER'S NEW TEST

Springer has also devised a test for cancer that picks up signs of the body's defense activity from the beginning of the smallest carcinomas, throughout the life of the tumor. For example, it can detect breast cancer up to six years earlier than mammography can, and without exposure to potentially harmful x-rays.

If one injects a small amount of T/Tn antigen into the skin of people without cancer, there is no reaction. However, if the same dose is injected into people who do have cancer, even in the earliest undetected stages, they get what is called a "delayed hypersensitivity" reaction. The immune system reacts against the cancer-like markers found in the T/Tn antigen shot.

The main result is a hardening of the injection area, as well as redness, and a slight swelling, up to two days following the injection. About 80–90 percent of the patients with carcinomas can be specifically detected using this harmless and inexpensive test, says Springer, and so far there have been no false positive results (i.e., instances in which the test says you have cancer but you do not). This has been successfully tried in over 1,200 people.

Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. is director of the The Moss Reports for cancer patients. Dr. Moss is the author of eleven books and three documentaries on cancer-related topics. He is or has been an advisor on alternative cancer treatments to the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, the American Urological Association, Columbia University, the University of Texas, the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the German Society of Oncology. He wrote the first article on alternative medicine for the Encyclopedia Britannica yearbook. He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who in Entertainment (as a film documentarian). This Web site does not advocate any particular treatment for cancer. We urge you to always seek competent medical advice for all health problems, especially cancer. Before consulting our site please read our full Disclaimer statement.

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