Scientific Reports on the Investigations of the Cancer Research Fund, Volume 4

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Page i - Fund is under the direction of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England and is governed by representatives of many medical and scientific institutions.
Page xiii - For the first time it is fully demonstrated that it is erroneous to make statements of a disquieting nature about the increase of cancer in general.
Page xi - The individuality of cancer, both as regards the organisn. attacked and the tumour, would thus appear to have been placed at last beyond all further doubt. Such a relationship has long been maintained in various forms on the basis of deductions drawn from histological examination of...
Page 180 - Contributions to the study of the development of sarcoma under experimental conditions.
Page 219 - The Induction of Specific resistance and of General enhanced susceptibility to Inoculation of Carcinoma and Sarcoma in Rats and Mice.
Page xvi - ... stocks in which this factor has been concentrated by careful mating, and that the influence is mainly exerted in the immediate descendants. Such a concentration as can be attained in experimental animals can only occur in the human subject, by hazard, as a coincidence of considerable rarity, and it is probable that the influence of heredity in the general population is manifested as an average predisposition of low general intensity. In all previous Reports guarded reference has been...
Page 213 - Source of the Constituent Element* of New Growths obtained by Artificial Propagation. Second Scientific Report of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Part ii.
Page xvi - ... while it is at present impossible to explain how the liability is transmitted, it can be averred with certainty that it does not consist in the inheritance of a soil more suitable for the growth of cancer in general.
Page x - ... is peculiarly and genetically related to the individual in which it arises. The genesis and growth of cancer are distinct phenomena which must be separately investigated.
Page 174 - ... is purely artificial, still more so is the histogenetic classification of malignant new growths since it is made without any reference to their only common property, viz. continued power of growth, and also conveys no information as to their relative rates of growth, or degrees of malignancy.

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