GROWTH OF CANCER

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1933, Page 8

GROWTH OF CANCER

ENACTED IN WONDERFUL FILM

MARVELLOUS REVELATIONS

LONDON, March 4. Tile latest cinema stars are cells of living tissue exhibited i.n. a cancer film shown before the Duke of York and Mr Rmnsay MacDonald at No. 10, Downing Street. The cultivation of the tissues —one of the modern marvels of scientific medicine—has enabled doctors to trace the developments of the cells, causing cancer, and watch the. effects of radium and other substances. Hitherto, the growth of cells has been so slow that human eyesight lias been unable to appreciate the changes Dr. Canti, working under the auspices of the Empire Cancer Research Campaign, has adapted a film to record photopgraphs of cells growing under the microscope in an incubator. By taking the pictures at intervals,

several weeks of continuous photo.

, o-raphy have been condensed into half \ an hour, the movements of the cells I be l no speeded up, sometimes a thousandfold. The film shows normal tissue from

the bone-formine: membrane of an I ebryo chick, with the cells continually changing and multiplying, and with scavenging cells eating the unhealthy and imperfect. Later, it illustrates cancer devohped •n rats, with cancer-cells extending tiler delicate tentacles, and seizing and destroying .the older and weaker cells.

The film held the spectators as intensely a® a ri-'d proma.