CANCER RESEARCH
REPORTED AMERICAN DISCOVERY.
“PROBABLE CAUSE” OF DISEASE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK. January 27. The Milwaukee correspondent of the United Press says that Doctor William Doern, physician at the local Mercy Hospital, announced to the hospital staff the discovery of micro-organism which “is the probable cause of cancer.” The discovery i- he culmination of research begun in 1932. The micro-organism has a special affinity to sex cells both in animals and plants and, with cultures of this microorganism, malignant tumours in more than 100 animals were produced.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1939, Page 5
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89CANCER RESEARCH Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1939, Page 5
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