CANCER RESEARCH.
• CAN THE DISEASE BE INHERITED? Ini TSLEGBiPn—rBESS ASSOCIATION- copteiout.i ' London, February 26. The Cancer Research Department of the Middlesex Hospital reports' that in 8000 oases treated there was no evidence that tho disoaso was inherited.
EMBRYONIC ORIGIN DISPROVED. ■The third report of the Imperiul Cancer Research Fund declares that the rationale of the early surgical removal of primary growths is. amply justified, and that no substitute for it has yet been discovered. Dr. Basliford. in his introduction, contests the theory vaguely held by a good many people that cancer is "congenital," and produced; by the disordered development of embryonic cells. "The 6tudy of the incidence of cancer as determined by irritants in man," he says, "demonstrates absolutely that the generalisation of the idea of a congenital or embryonic origin is incorrect." This reflection is borne .out by two novel items of evidence from India. In Kashmir, where cancer of tho skin is common, the cause is easily traceable to the custom of .'carrying a;, sm!s ' fire in an earthenware vejsel close' to' !tb!o skia.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 444, 1 March 1909, Page 7
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176CANCER RESEARCH. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 444, 1 March 1909, Page 7
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