The offer of Lord Atholstan of a prize of $100,000 for the discovery of a cure for cancer has brought 2,715 claims for the award from 41 countries, says a Montreal message. On the advice of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of London all claimants, in order to entitle them to consideration of alleged cures in the competition for the prize, must first satisfy a recognized medical faculty or a leading medical society in his or her country that there is some scientific basis to justify experimental investigation of the professed gute, and that the cases said to have been successfully treated were in fact cases of cancer. The claimants who have satisfied the above. conditions must request the medical faculty or medica] society to report to, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. The Imperial Cancer Research Fund will then determine the means to be adop' to investigate the claims of the applicant, if the committee are of opinion that a case kas been made out.
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