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Active research into the cause of cancer is now running mainly along two lines. Laboratory workers are particularly concerned with the experimental production of cancer by tar and other similar irritating agents, and with the fowl tumours which may be transmitted from bird to bird by an ultra-microscopic agent. Statisticians and hygienists, on the other hand, are attentively and fruitfully examining the relation between modes and habits of life and the occurrence of malignant tumours. Particularly encouraging is the fact that these two methods of approach have in recent years converged to the common conclusion that much cancer is due to external influences rather than to any inherent vice in the body, and should therefore be preventable.
Cancer and Scientific Research.
By Dr. Barbara Holmes. (Sheldon Books of Popular Science.) Pp. 160. (London: The Sheldon Press; New York and Toronto: The Macmillan Co., 1931.) 3s. 6d. net.
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Cancer and Scientific Research. Nature 128, 136 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128136a0
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