Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-03 | Page 14 | Expert Says Cancer Not Transmittable

EXPERT SAYS CANCER NOT TRANSMITTABLE Disease Not Contagious or Inherited Certain Certain tam tain Types More Susceptible Cancer Is i not an Infectious or contagious disease Dr Clarence Cook Cok Little Lite of New York managing director of the American Society for or the Control of Cancer told a large audience at nt Kingsbur hall hail hl Monday night night He declared that there seems ses to t be little evidence of oC direct transmission transmission trans trans- mission of cancer from parent to offspring but there Is evidence that certain types type of or p people are more sUSceptible sus susceptible u to it i than tUI others and ond that these tee types run in families amIes T These c findings indin however r should hould not be a source of or worry to an anyone one b because ause they are more a matter mater of scientific interest than practical consideration con con- dera on he said One of the difficulties presented In I the attack atack on th the whole cancer problem is 15 the fact tact that th the word cancer covers many different kinds of phenomena Not NoL all cancers originate Bate nate late from the same sae source or are all al equally equall malignant or all aU progress at atthe atthe th the same rate Dr Little Lite appealed to his hi hearers for patient and understanding cooper cooper- tion in the war of or science against the Ce I He pointed out that most mot of or the cancer research has ha be been n done on mice mie since these thee animals animal arc the most perfect reproductive machine among mammals and they have almost the same types tye of C cancer that humans human have Dr A. A C. C president of ot the Salt Sl Lake County Medical Medial society introduced in traduced Dr Little Litle