FIGHT AGAINST CANCER
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS HONOUR TO BRITONS LONDON, Sept. 29. Chosen from cancer research workers in 4o countries to receive the first international prize of £350 and radium worth £3OO, Professors E. L. Kennaway and J. W. Cook, of the Royal Cancer Hospital, London, stated that they thought that cancer was caused by a chemical change in the body and not by a living organism. "We converted some normal constituents of the body into cancerproducing subjects," they stated. "We have readied a working hypothesis that the disease may be caused by a biochemical process taking a wrong turning, and creating A product which acts on the cells and forms cancer. If we could find why, we would then probably prevent it."
Both scientists hastened to issue a warning that no clue had been found.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 5
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