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IN a memoir recently published,1 Dr. Johannes Fibiger brings forward strong evidence in support of the view, by no means novel, that the lesions of the tissues produced by parasitic worms may act as the starting-point for the development of cancerous growths and tumours. The author found in wild rats a disease of the oesophagus and stomach characterised by an epithelial proliferation and inflammation leading, in pronounced cases, to a papillomatous growth which was the precursor of a malignant epithelioma. Examination of the primary lesions revealed the presence of a nematode worm, an undescribed species of Spiro-ptera.
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Helminths and Cancer . Nature 91, 641 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091641a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/091641a0