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Show Jfage JNine cause body cells to go on a rampage, ram-page, multiply too rapidly and produce cancers. As an example, Binkley reported that X-ray action can make a good enzyme behave differently in dealing deal-ing with a substance- known as methionine. It is an amino acid, one of the substances the body must have to produce protein essential es-sential for life. Utah Medical Man Reports on Cancer A breakdown in the "police force" of the body was offered this week as a clue in the cause of cancer. Should the "police force" be restored re-stored its proper function medical science could eliminate the cause of a disease that kills about 285,-000 285,-000 Americans annually. The new evidence was presented pre-sented by Dr. Francis Binkley of the University of Utah College of Medicine at the diamond jubilee meeting of the American Chemical Chem-ical Society, which opened Tuesday Tues-day with some 18,000 chemists from the United States and 42 foreign for-eign countries attending. Binkley's ''police force" is composed com-posed of substances in the body known as enzymes. They have been described as chemical police- j men whose job it is to keep the I body functioning normally. However, How-ever, Binkley reported evidence that enzymes can be altered gene- j tically, and that as a result they no longer function properly and |