Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-09-29
CANCER MAY Change
MANTOHIGHERBE|NG
AGENT FOR EVOLUTION
OF EARTHLY vERTEBRATEs
New Form Of Life Is Found in Can.
Ger Cell = Disease Is Not on
Increase, Not Infective and Not
Hereditary.

Hereditary.
BUDAPEST, Sept. lis cancer
for the Anal extinction of the human
race. or It's transmission. by a pro-
cess of evolution, into some other
and higher form of life, as yet un-
suited to present conditions on the
globe? This Is the question scien-
lists are asking after listening to
the strange revelations just made to
the Sixteenth International Medical
Congress here by Prof. Il. +. Bash
ford of London, director of the I'm
perial ANGER Research. which way
established by royal authority in
1902 to carry on systematic investi-
cations in regard to this mysterious
disease.
Cancer stands revealed in the ex-
periments of the Imperial Cancer Re-
search. not as a disease, in the ordi-
nary accepted meaning of the term,
but as some new form Of life. There
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the cancer cell is a living cell, con-
tanning the power within itself OF
apparently indefinite proliferation,
or self perpetuation and expansion.
Moreover. II 1t not an embryonic cell.
but Is highly specialized cell.
The growth Of cancer, the director
tells his learned colleagues, is en-
tirely and essentially different from
the growth of embryonic tissues,
analogies with which were natural SO
long as the growth of cancer wUs
put an end to by the death of indi-
viduals. This growth is unique
biological phenomenon, disobeying
all the laws of growth by which or
ganisms and organs attain to their
specific dimensions. The cancer cell
possesses fixed characteristics.
What causes a normal cell to evo-
lutte or change into a cancer cell?
This is the great mystery.
Experiments on Mice.
Cancer. the congress was told, has
no analogy with any known from OF
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TROUT is particularly liable to cancer.
II 10 apnareIPtIv as preva,ent I'm saw
age and semi-civilized as in the most
hi,b,y civi,ized roces NJ mon Gan
the conser ,esiops be reproduced ex-
nerinentollv and con cancer he
ltrapsnIanted from one animal tn nm
otberp Yes saws Prof ashford II
has been done in tens Of thouso nds
of cases nv the experimenters in the
Immortal Cancer Researcb Laborato-
ries eSDaCially from mouse to mouse,
Is there any are-incidenee in can
cer9, Yes the director tells the con-
gross. and II holds good not only for
man but for all other vertebrate ami
mails. The liability to the disease
is preotest In early middle life.
| Ia cancer on the increase? That
il doubtful saws Roshford The an
parent increase he saws. "a due TO
more corefu, diagnosis The liabil-
Ivy 10 the disease is somewhat great
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Not Contagious or Infectious.
Is cancer hereditary or congenital!
That question, says Bashiord, mas
not been settled either one way OF
the other for man. The experiments