Medicine: Vanishing Cancer

Attorney Frank Fowles, 66, is one of Utah's leading citizens. He owns a prosperous Ogden insurance business, has served 20 years in the state senate, is a potential candidate for Governor or Congress. These blessings are minor compared to the latest event in Fowles's life. Early this month his doctors revealed that Fowles had become one of medicine's real rarities—a case of spontaneous cancer regression.

The Operation. A sturdy, calm, active man, Fowles began to feel sick in November 1955. Symptoms: chest pains, short breath, chills and fever. His doctors diagnosed gallstones. Surgeons removed the stones at an Ogden hospital—but also found...

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