CANCER RESEARCH.

Otaki Mail, 3 October 1923, Page 4

CANCER RESEARCH.

ON TRACK OF CURE. LONDON, Sept. 10. A small and devoted gmup of specialist investigators at -me oi die famous English universities has made a prodigious advance n: :,:mj pa..; ow weeks reward the dis.v-> . ' a •.'d-'r ioi csficer id inv e ...;a: .' ;J t,.- . - e 1 Ley a. c ■ r he r'i'd’:-, a flit at ami deuui’w ; 1 iiICUU', uo a pi cixiiUbUic uisOOSUiti u.i 1 i me i;iu* v v»sv6 10 cuiisiUefed us>- j lo Liy «UJli 6UCCC>i»fUi Xc- • 4 suits. J.imm iiuiiiij uut tiiu.l Uiis ii~i> f x y.m-d in U:e c&sO oi D icyer, j [■ 'rVuu a.;vt»Jee«i i!?*' oi ius tUL- j | ereuioaj* aiit; uns\ vvttieii tue UAiuia I | University a lit holmes. discovered that | i Allieilion JecVarohe* lOfieW- j mg LM..ei s pIOCLsaCS Vvclo finely 10 ,L;'iciptue In.i anuoanccuieui. ■ ii-_- special nuusciiiaiive oi tiie -.Tv; son understands that Clues to ui-eovoiies win be re-I-aUCrUded a long suva ui e.spe*. meins, jiuutoij in die lnier-breeuiug oi idiiiniex oj ftiis, some oi wihcii v imve been inoculated w\ih cancer | from human beings .and. others leu J immune. The first step was to discover wiia. cancel' really is. It is neaeved thuu Uus is now known, and tiie clue is beingr ceaselessly and rigorously ioiloweu, with increasing indications oi success. Tiie scientists, however, do not wish to raise sufferers’ hopes prematurely, and so they are maimumIny tile Strictest silence pending the moment when they wilt be able to »- proclaim a. certain cure. A leading specialist participating in the experiments says: “1 expect that within five years tiie sting will be absolutely removed from the terrors of cancer. 1 may say that the only difficulty at present facing us is our inability to experiment, on the hu- ! man frame. This prevents earlier and ] more definite conclusions-” | Asked whether the experimenters i intended pressing the Home Office to adopt Dr. King’s suggestion to give murderers under sentence to death the alternative of offering themselves lor cancer experiments, the specialist replied, “No, but we may have tocall for volunteers.”