Show HAS STRONG HOPE HOP Of CURING CANCER ALBANY N. N Y Feb 14 A A strong stronghope stronghope stronghope hope of of curin curing cancer or at least greatly ameliorating the suffering of cancer cancer- patients by means of inoculation inoculation lation is held out in the report of Henry Gaylord director of the cancer laboratory of the state department of health at Buffalo This hope is based on extended experimentation in the last lasty y year ar in the of various animals mainly rats with the tho cancer virus It appears says the report that where whore the resistance of the animal is not sufficiently awakened by one in in- II of th the tumor this resistance tance tane can be hei heightened by repeated I I I dozes doses and in a considerable proportion proportion tion of cases immunity can be raised to a point that vill bring about a cure It is needless to point out that this process of repe repeated ted vaccination which has cured in the proportion o Ot of 25 to 40 in in rats mi might ht well be bo applied to those cases of cancer in human beings in which sur surgery eq has nothing to offer slid and the outlook is hopeless As we stron strongly ly urged the le legislature legislature legisla legisla- slature sla- sla ture in previous reports the time has come when we should begin experimentation experimentation tation with human bein beings s. s To do so to o oit it is necessary that a number of patients patients patients pa pa- should be maintained for this p purpose Funds sufficient to enable us to maintain ten patients is the least amount that can be of value if this work is to be undertaken Other investigations conducted by bythe bythe bythe the laboratory have had to do with the prevalence of ot many forms of cancer in fish lish and the possibility of infection by human beings It has been found that cancer of the thyroid is of frequent occurrence in fish of the tho trout family U It It is a remarkable coincidence says lays the report that the area of the United States which includes the greatest great eat est eat concentration of human cancer cases eases is almost identical with the area through which the various members of the trout family are distributed Statistics are given to show that cancer cancer canor can can- or continues to increase The report says saYI that in the United States it has increased from 9 per population population population tion in 1850 to 43 in 1900 an avera average e of about 65 in 1901 1001 and an average of more than 70 10 in 1006 1906 |