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Show CANCER NOT INHERITED. After experiments with 52,000 rats,1 during a period of, 12 years, ths In- stitute of Cancer Research announces the definite conclusion that cancer is , never inherited. An announcement by , the Institute says: j "Cancer is a terrible disease, not only because it brings pain and death,; but also because it inspires an im- j mense amount of worry in a great many people who are never going to ' suffer from it physically. j "It is the people who have seen cancer attack some member of their j family who worry the most and without with-out cause. It appears from the re- j search done that cancer does not start unless there is an irritation present, i The germ cells which are inherited from parents do not carry the lia-' bility to cancer. I "The main benefit derived from the ' study is that it removes the fatalistic i attitude developed toward the disease. It is that attitude which keeps many I persons away from the doctor during the early stages of the cancer growth, when through an early examination and treatment a life might often be saved." |