HEREDITY AND CANCER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 286, 3 December 1931, Page 14

HEREDITY AND CANCER.

"In regard to the direct influence of heredity on the development of cancer, there is evidence that mice ond men are linked in a strange fraternity," says. 1 Jr. D. A. Welch, .professor of pathology in the University of Sydney. "Both mise nd men may show strains that are relatively susceptihle and strains that are relatively immivne to cancer. Fortunate, inSeed, are they who belong to the latter class. And to those ■who belong to the former class,- that is, to those who have a family history of cancer, I would say; that forewarned is forearmed. It is one of the prerogatives of) intellect to be able to turn what at first appears to foe a menace into a "weapon of defence against that menaceIf we accept the fact that heredity plays a part in the genesis of. most cancers, then we should be in a better position to prevent death from cancer, because r nur attention would be focussed upon edrly and curable stages when an predisposition is known-to SnS upon prevention in suph cases f—lnvW all possible excitnig; causes." «S i l*ing made in-New »* i Aim behalf of the. Empire Cancer Zealand forces against tld3 Crusade, to orgaim y is one o£ stages is states.that cancer " n£rlv treated, 'usually curable when propeiiy; .w _