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AT the quarterly meeting of the Grand Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign held on January 14, the following additional grants for 1935 were approved:-£200 to Dr. Ralston Paterson for the part-time services of a radiologist at the Holt Radium Institute, Manchester; £250 to the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, for the services of Dr. A. Glucksmann; £200 to Dr. Edith Paterson, at Manchester and £1,000 to the Radium Beam Therapy Research for the salary of qualified research workers. The Scientific Advisory Committee has been allotted a sum of £500 for the year 1935 for the salary and expenses of a research worker to carry out, under its supervision, an investigation of the action of radiation on colloids. The National Cancer Association of South Africa, which is representative of the research organisations of the Cape, Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State, has been approved as a body affiliated to the British Empire Cancer Campaign. The Ottawa correspondent of The Times states that Canada will commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of King George to the throne by establishing a national fund for a campaign against cancer in Canada.
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Cancer Research. Nature 135, 112 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135112b0
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