NEW FORM OF CANCER
ATTRIBUTED TO MOTORING (Rcc. February 13, 10.10 p.m.) London, February’ 13. Sir Arbuthnot Lane expresses the opinion that motoring is the cause of a new form of cancer of the lungs, from which 10 per cent, of cancer victims die. He bases his statement on figures supplied from Vienna, showing an increase in cancer of the lung since 1895. Sir Arbuthnot Lane says: “It. is obvious the condition is coincident with the motor-car and the use of tar on the roads. lam convinced that cancer is a disease of civilisation, as shown by its comparative absence in India wherever the natives adopt the natural form of living, though where the Indians adopt the habits and foods of the white men the incidence of cancer is equal to that in Europe.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 116, 14 February 1928, Page 9
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134NEW FORM OF CANCER Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 116, 14 February 1928, Page 9
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