CANCER RESEARCH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 8 September 1911, Page 4

CANCER RESEARCH.

Sir William Church, at the annual meeting of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, is moving the adoption of the annual report ,said that, the study of cancer in man and in domesticated animals in widely separated portions of the globe had shown that the practice of peculiar customs causing chronic irritation to particular parts of the body was associated with the disease in situations from which it was absent when those customs did not obtain. Every tumor was peculiarly and genetically related to the animal in which it arose. Experiments by Dr. Bashford (general superintendent) had afforded evidence that the cancer cell was a modification of a normal cell. Methods preventing .the successful implantation of canon- had been tested on mice

; fleeted with spontaneous cancer, and had given no evidence of pov.or either to hinder the growth and dissemination of the disease or to prevent tlie recurrence of spontaneous cancer. After the removal of the primary tumor some of the methods by which other investigations had claimed to obtain immunity against propogated cancer with vaccines and sera had been tried in their laboratory, but not as yet with successful results. For the first time it had been fully demonstrated that it was wrong to make statements of a disquieting nature about the increase of cancer in general. In conjunctions with other investigations means were afforded of determining from parts of

.hi 1 hotly where the disease appear'd :q he increasing whether the increase vas real or only apparent, and of as•ertaining the casual factors peculiar .0 such parts.