CANCER RESEARCH.
1.1 ON! TRACK OF CURE. ‘LONDON,' Sept. 10. . A small and devoted group of specialist investigators at one ot the lamous English universities has made a prodigious advance in the past few weeks toward the discovery of a tor cancer. The investigators believe they are on the brink of a final and definite success. The entire medical profession is sworn to secrecy about .These, experiments, as a premature disclosure of the processes is considered as possibly damaging to early and successful results. Tney point out that this happened in the case of Professor Dreyer, who divulged the progress of liis tuberculosis cure only when the Oxlord, University authorities discovered that American, .(researches closely following Dreyer’s processes were likely to anticipate his announcement. The special representative of the Sydney Sun understands that clues to the new cancer discoveries will he revealed alter Hie investigators have concluded a long series of experiments, notably hi the Inter-breeding of families of rats, some of which have been inoculated w'th cancer from human beings and others left immune. The first step was to discover what cancer ‘really is. It is believed that this is now known, and the clue is being ceaselessly and rigorously followed with increasing indications of success. The scientists, however, do not wish to raise sufferers’ hopes prematurely, and so they are maintaining the" strictest silence pending the moment when they will be able to proclaim, a certain cure. . A leading specialist participating m tlie experiments says: “I expect that within five years the sting will be absolutely removed from the terrors of cancer. I may say that the only difficultv at present facing us is our inability to experiment on the human frame.- This prevents earlier and more definite conclusions.” . Asked whether the ' experimenters intended pressing the Home Office to adopt. Dr. King’s suggestion to give murderers under sentence to deatn the alternative of offering themselves tor cancer experiments, the specialist replied, “No,, but we may have to call for volunteers.”
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Shannon News, 28 September 1923, Page 3
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