CANCER RESEARCH

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 9

CANCER RESEARCH

DIFFERENT VIEWS ON GYEBARNARD THEORY

“OUTLOOK ON PROBLEM TRANSFORMED” „

By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright.

(Rec. January 21, 8.15 p.m.)

London, January 31.

Two interesting views of the GyeBarnard cancer theory have just been published.

Sir George Beaston, writing in the “British Medical Journal,” ' suggests the possibility that Mr. Barnard did not see the cancer microbe, but might have. synthetically created new combinations from materials on which he played ultra-violet or X-rays. Ou the cither hand, the annual report of the British Medical Research Council says: "Dr. Gye and Mr. Barnard transformed our outlook on the problem of the causation of cancer by suggesting, that a filter-passing virus or ultra microbe is a common factor in malignant tumors, yet harmless without an adjuvant factor. For the purpose of more rapidly exploiting the possibilities the council is constructing additional laboratories at the Imperial Research Fund’s Millhill Farm, to which Mr. Barnard’s ultra-filtration plant has been transferred from Hampstead. Dr. Gye will supervise part of the Imperial Fund’s research.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.