ELUSIVE CANCER GERM.
HUMAN DISEASE IN ANIMALS. EFFORTS TOWARDS CURE. “Reasonable hopes of making considerable progress towards discovering tlie- germ of cancer can now b e entertained,” states Dr. Bruno Bloch, of Zurich, “but it would not be true to say that the cancer germ has yet been isolated.
“In the laboratories where I work in Zurich I and my colleagues have been able to do something. We have managed to reproduce human cancer in animals, the necessary first step for its proper study. We have managed to produce cancer cultures, but we have not yet isolated the germ itself.
“We have introduced human cancer in mice, and we have even advanced far enough to be, able to cure this cancer in a few cases. But it is untrue that the same procedure would cure cancer in human beings. We can only grope our way step by step, and we dare not make any premature statement which, might bring hope to thousands of sufferers who would finally be disappointed. “I have been visiting Paris to study radio-therapeutics as practised there, as they have such a large part to play in our present line of research. More than tliis I am afraid I cannot say.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5125, 13 May 1927, Page 4
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204ELUSIVE CANCER GERM. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5125, 13 May 1927, Page 4
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