nature 132, 265-267 (19 August 1933) | doi:10.1038/132265a0

The Genetics of Cancer

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THE statement is occasionally made, and as frequently denied, that cancer is hereditary. It is, of course, clear that environmental influences can play a leading part in determining the production of cancer.

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