Show says no cancer in F fishes dr bashford noted english expert experts dt ns lares lare finny tribe it Is swept away by boltre goitre london cancer experts on this side think there must be some mIs mistake taku in mr nir taft a special rues sage to con gress in which he naked asked for an appropriation pria tion of for the In tion of cancer in cabled reports att the president ent eay say that close of the subject of can cancer caner er in fishe which are frequently sy ept avay by epidemics of that die dis may give us light upon thie this dreadful human scourge dr bash ford director of the imperial cancer research fund says that there must be some misconception hero here fishes are swept away by cottre goitre not by cancer hemaya the caption has arisen because cancer sometimes follows upon goltry I 1 I 1 do not mean that cancer does not attack fishes but the subject which hae has given rise to mr drifts request for knotner laboratory la Is that of gaitre goitre upon which aspect of the question lon the imperial cancer research fund ha has been engates for p long time past As A a result of investigations pread spread over the entire british empire which began in 1902 it was found that the ls ease existed throughout the vertebrate scale in particular it was found that trout bleb ere kept in hatcheries forstock for stock purposes were very halle liable to a desense ll gense of the thyroid gland very to cottre goitre and this not inere went on to the development of cancer cancer as distinct troia from that which allois upon boltre goitre has been found in fishi fish from the te set but never in ili any frequency ahlich justify the theory of an epidemic a 8 a matter of net investigators consider it to tie 1130 established that cancer Is 1 cot flat I 1 |