The Unitarian or Trophoblastic Thesis of Cancer

period journal · 1950

type:period journal

year:1950

citation:Krebs ET Jr, Krebs ET. The Unitarian or Trophoblastic Thesis of Cancer. Medical Record (New York) 163, no. 7 (July 1950): 149-174. PMID: 24538143.

LINK

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24538143/

SUMMARY

Ernst T. Krebs Jr.'s and his father Ernst T. Krebs's own primary journal article laying out the 'trophoblastic' theory of cancer (that malignant cells are a resurgence of primitive trophoblast-type embryonic tissue, an idea originally proposed by embryologist John Beard in 1902) that Krebs used to justify laetrile as a rational cancer treatment. PMID 24538143 confirmed via PubMed/NCBI eutils esummary; author field lists only 'KREBS ET Jr, KREBS ET' per the resolver record.

NOTES

The practitioners’ own primary statement of the vague mechanism theory underlying laetrile, used as the subject_claim source for the case’s vague-mechanism arc.