Imperial Cancer Research Fund

Abstract

THE eighteenth annual meeting of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund was held on July 22, the Duke of Bedford presiding. Sir William Church, in moving the adoption of the report, gave a summary of the investigations during the past year; in this he stated that the Director had continued the autologous grafting experiments, in which by transplanting an animal's own tumour to a part of its body away from the site of the primary growth an artificial secondary growth is established. The formation of secondary growths is the most certain evidence of the cancerous nature of a growth. It is to be hoped, therefore, that this method will be more widely applied as a control in the experiments on the production of cancer by chronic irritants which are being undertaken in so many laboratories throughout the world. In these experiments the most definite proof of malignancy is essential to progress.