Hopeful progress in a surgical technique which should make possible the cure of some otherwise hopeless cancer patients was reported by Dr, Paul William Sctiafer, Kansas City, Kans., in New Orleans Sunday,
Dr. Schafer, professor and chairman of the department of surgery at the University of Kansas, told of the research at a meeting of the Surgical Association of Louisiana at the St. Charles hotel.
The technique, he explained, is to use a "temporary collateral arterial circulation," or a plastic tubing shunt or bypass, around a diseased artery.
This permits the normal flow of blood and allows removal of
the diseased area.
Dr. Schafer, in charge of the research in this technique, said the process entails keeping an "artery bank," much like blood-banks and bone banks. [PHOTO CAPTION READS] DR. P. W. SCHAFER, DR. J. E. RHOADS
