PROGRESS IN CANCER RESEARCH
LONDON, I)ee. 10. Sir Blanford Oade, in litoving ihe adoption of the annual report at the nieeting of the Enipire C'aneer Uampaign, said the bineheinical genius oi j'rofessor E. ( Dodds had produced the syul hetie drug stilbostrol and de ..vatives powerful in the eonlrol of eain-er and possibly ollier diseased sitcs. "It is undesirable to talk about a eaneer eure, as it may be niisiuterpret ed and lead to disappointment, but Professor Dodds 's eont ribut ion controls eaneer of Ihe prostate to n degree not known before, and medieally, as op]iosed*to surgiealfy or radiologically, " he said. " Mortality is the best yardstiek ln wliieh to nieasure ihe progrcss of the iighl against eaneer. There htive boen eonsiderable deereases in mortality in eaneer of aeeessible sites and some in ternal organs. The peak of the risc h;ts apparently been reaehed in deatlis from eaneer in other sites, although for some sites, notablv the lung, the cnrve is still relentlesslv upward. ''
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 December 1946, Page 5
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