CAUSE OF CANCER

Northern Advocate, 13 July 1925, Page 5

CAUSE OF CANCER

MOUNT VERNON DISCOVERY. IMPORTANT STAGE. (Received 1.30 p.m.') LONDON, July 12. The " Daily Express" announces that the National Institute of Medical Research at Mount Vernon, Hampstead, after four years' work, has won the international race for the benefit of humanity by discovery of the o•ganism which ( causes cancer, which is responsible for one out of every seven deaths of those over 50 years of age.

The "Daily Express" adds: "False expectations should not be created. It is the cause, not the cure of cancer, which has been discovered, but the discovery gives definite hope of grappling with the disease.''

Full details of the discovery will be published this week. —A. and N.Z.

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(Received 1.40 p.m.)

LONDON, July 12,

The "Sunday Times" states: "Within a few days the world will learn the story of the discovery of the cause of cancer. This is an assertion made by a disinterested team of expert investigators who have succeeded in isolating a secret micro-organism from the cancer cell with which the experts, in combination with the chemical factory, experimentally caueerously infected birds and mammals. While birds and mammals are correspondingly rendered immune, the experiment reveals a new organism which passes through the filters and cannot be seen microscopically' with ordinary light, but is exposed by the aid of novel agencies."—Sun.