CANCER AND RACE
Why do Chinese coolies in Sumatra have cancer of the stomach more frequently than Javanese coolies, though both live under similar conditions? Why should cancer of the skin occur more frequently in Southern France and in Australia than elsewhere? Why should males in Great Britain, Japan, Switzerland, and Holland suffer from cancer of the digestive organs more i frequently than females? Why should cancer of the stomach be more prevalent among the poor than the well-to-do in England? Why should residents of Hawaii who are not natives have a lower cancer death-rate than residents of other regions, and why are native Hawaiians4 especially prone to cancer? Why' should Japanese. women have fewer breast cancers than other women? Sir G. Lenthal Cheatle and Dr. Max Cutler believe that some light may be thrown on these and similar questions by studying cancer in its racial aspects. "The whole question of racial incidence, with all its possibilities of preventing the dread disease, is crying out for general, specific, and detailed investigation," the two declared.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 5
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174CANCER AND RACE Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 5
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