CANCER RESEARCH.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES
REVEALED
'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Sept. 5.
With eight cancer-infected mice, from the Melbourne laboratory as subjects, Dr. Thomas Cherry to-day read a, paper on experimental cancer before* members of the medical, congress. He revealed a, number of important discoveries one of which was that some cancers occurring naturally in mice could he transplanted into other > mice. Another discovery was that chronic irritation of the skin bv tar and other substances would produce an epithelioma in r-hbits and mice and other animals. Such growths displayed all the characteristics of cancer in human beings. , ~ Dr Cherry alluded to the resemblance between experimental cancers and those in humanity and remarked that cancer and tuberculosis iu man had features which pointed to related causation.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 6 September 1929, Page 5
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131CANCER RESEARCH. Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 6 September 1929, Page 5
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