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The discovery and development of cancer-producing chemical compounds represent a major achievement of cancer research in Britain, although many important contributions have been made in other countries, notably in Japan and in the United States. It is therefore peculiarly appropriate that the British Council should sponsor the publication of an excellent and comprehensive series of articles reviewing the whole field of chemical carcinogenesis*. There are papers by twenty authors from eleven different research centres, representing the main fields of cancer research activity in the United Kingdom. This symposium ranks in importance with, and supplements, the symposium on cancer research published in 1945 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see Nature, 158, 217; 1946). The planning of the British Council's publication was carried out with the advice of Prof. Alexander Haddow, who has himself contributed three interesting articles, one of them in collaboration with Prof. G. A. R. Kon. “Its intention is not merely to provide a conspectus of our present knowledge, but to indicate also the probable trends of development for the years ahead.”
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COOK, J. Chemical Carcinogenesis. Nature 160, 375–376 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160375a0
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