OCR Text |
Show 00 NO PROGRESS IN CANCER TREATMENT London, July 21 A meeting of the Imperial Cancer Research fund today disclosed that small progress has been made In the experimental laboratory in combatting the scourge. Sir William Selby Church, president of the Royal Society of Iediclne. stated sta-ted that' "methods for preventing the successful Implantation of cancer had been tested on mice affected by spontaneous cancer and had given "no evidence of power to hinder the growth and dissemination of disease or to prevent recurrence of spontaneous spontane-ous cancer after the Teihoval of the primary tumor." Some methods by which other investigators in-vestigators claimed to obtain -Immunity against propagated cancer with vaccines and serums had been tried in the laboratory but tho results had not yet been successful. The experiments of Dr Bassford afforded evidence that the cancer cell is a modification of the normal cell. |