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DURING the last twenty or thirty years the above title has been very frequently the text for reviews, summaries and editorial articles, and might in other circumstances be regarded as covering an over-written subject. The wide interest, taken in cancerous diseases—an interest stimulated by the apparently increasing toll of this malady which the mortality figures of the Registrar-General reveal—suggests that the editorial request for a further article on the same theme should not be neglected. Recently the general Press has contained the announcement of Lord Atholstan's offer under certain conditions of a prize of 22,000l. for the discovery of a medical cure for cancer, whilst this has been followed by Sir William Veno's prize of 10,000l. The final form in which these sums will be applied to the stimulation, and perhaps the subvention, of cancer research has probably not yet been definitely decided, but both gifts can be looked upon as concrete examples of the importance which men attach to a solution of the problem of cancer.
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MURRAY, J. Cancer Research. Nature 109, 311–312 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109311a0
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