Cancer and Meat

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 14, 11 October 1907, Page 5

Cancer and Meat

■;•■;■• .;■;•■. DOCTOR'S FINDNG. By Telegraph'.—Associatlon.-Copyright. ; ..;'•;:' New York, October 9. Dr, Cook Adam 3, reporting ; to the Chicago Board of Health, contends ..that/.statistical investigations in .Eur- ,"". opo,V. Great Britain, and the United ''•■' States fully:corroborate earlier.Australian observations, which point to the -fact that the great increase in cancer , case's is due to increased consumption of'animal foods, particularly of diseased animals.

The observation of Dr. Cool: Adams is hardly In key with remarks made in the last rejtortof Dr. E. F. Baskford, genoral •superintendent of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. This report, as sum- . marised in the "Saturday. Review,'* shows that " statistical inquiries made by: Dr. Bashford and his assistants have ; now clearly established the faet that cancer occurs throughout the world almost independently of race or climate, or special habit. There seemed at first to bean indication of greater frequency of ■ cancer of internal organs amongst the civilised populations of towns than in remoter districts or amongst lo*er races, but it now appears to bo the ease that the' difference, in the '.figures is duo merely to difference in facilities for collecting information. The cases of internal cartccr discovered are precisely in proportion to the opportunities of mak-ing-careful search for them, A remnrkablo conclusion, suggested in former re- . ports, is now becoming' moro certain) the frequency of cancer increases most strikingly with the age df tho tissuo or the individual. This parallelism hatween age .and liability to the spontaneous occurrence of cancor appears to hold (jood- not only for man but for all animals, and is certainly of great significance." .