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Show No Cure for Cancer Yet In hlB annual report Dr. E. P. Dash-ford, Dash-ford, general superintendent of research re-search in tho laboratories of tho im-"perial im-"perial cancer reodearch fund, told tho members of the society that during tho past yoar thoro had been 12 claims to the dlscovory of a euro for cancer. All of these had been Investigated and no Justification for any ono of these claims had been obtained. Dr. Bash-ford Bash-ford also said womon were more.'llablc to cancer .than men. In England nnd Wales in 1910 tho death rate from cancer was 85G per 1,000,000 for mon and 1.070 for womon. As tho London Times says editorially editorial-ly In commenting upon this report: "Tho only reaeonablo expectation of curing cancer still rests upon Its complete com-plete removal by tho Burgeon at tho earliest possible timo after it Is discovered." dis-covered." Medical Record. |