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TREATMENT OF CANGER.

AIEDICAL EXAMINATION OF

100,000 AIICE,

The annual report which was read at the meeting of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, m the Examination-hall, London, recently, showed that the daba from hospitals upon the occurrence of cancer m blood relatives did not yield conclusive evidence for or against the theory of heredity. After repeated failures during .three years, the committee had been able to obtain offspring from mice suffering naturally from cancer, and breeding experiments might enable them to explain the reason for the greater number of cancerous mice which were received from the stock -kept by some breeders as compared with others. The occurrence of an isolated case of cancer of the mamma m a mouse, whose grandmother -had suffered, m the same way at the same site, tended to show that data would m time be obtained as to the existence of hereditary susceptibility, m .mice. With such results, it might be possible to arrive at a conclusion as to whether cancer m man was or was not hereditary. It had taken four years' examination of 100,000 -to discover the occurrence of twenty-eight cases of . spontaneous cancer, and' by following up the investigations of the last year it was found to be possible to protect mice from all the consequences of inoculation with can. cer. Immunity had been conferred mso high a degree thab, whereas out of 100 ordinary mice, 90 developed tumors after inoculation, m the protected animals no tumors at all were developed. The protecting influence acted by way of the body fluids, and the body fluids of some protected mice, when injected into mice with experimental cancer, had retarded the growth of well-established tumors. Ib was not yet possible, however,- to arrest the progress, far less to effect the cure, of the disease occurring naturally m mice.

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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10830, 24 November 1906, Page 7 (Supplement)

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TREATMENT OF CANGER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10830, 24 November 1906, Page 7 (Supplement)

TREATMENT OF CANGER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10830, 24 November 1906, Page 7 (Supplement)

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