Great Deal is Known About Cancer
Receive'U Siiiiday/S p.m^' 'I ^ WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. Cancer research ap£)eared to be about vvhere atomic research vvas in 1940 — on the eve of great developnients, said Dr. Edmund Cowdry, a cancer authority of Washington [Jniversity, St. Louis. Dr. Louis told the cancer conference today tiiat- .spientists .throughout the world ha'd'-built up a- great. .ieservoir of knowledge about cancer -in -the Jast tbn years, espeeially since 1^6.. Whether that knowledge could. suddenly. be. put together to'- solve the cancer problem as uuelear and ' other - knowledge produced the atomic bomb, depended alinost whol'iy on " whether we get .exeitedabout cancer and decide ,td do something , about it right now. We should reeard it as an emergehcy."
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 December 1949, Page 3
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