At the latest meeting of the British Empire Cancer Research Campaign gratification was expressed of the progress which had been made, and there reason to belie that definite steps forward have been. taken towards the ultimate solution lof the problems involving the cause jand treatment of the disease, ithe annual report, an experiment in the use of a anti-serum is deseribled by Dr. T. Lumsden the hon. director of the Cancer Research Laboratory of the London Hospital, jas the final and crucial gest to ten years investigation. In 1925 it was discovered that -anti-sera could be. produced which were capable of destroying cancer cells, and though the first experiments at curing can-jeer in an animal by injecting antiserum failed, by 1932 it was posible to record that mice could be [cured in a large percentage of cases, Jand were apparently immune thereafter. Twenty cancer victims whose eases, from the point of view of existing methods, are regarded as hopeless have volunteered to place themselves under anti-serum treat: ment, and while an announcement leven' provisional conclusions is! thought to be inadvisable at this juncture, results have been obtai which justify further and intensive, investigation along the lines follow-Jed hitherto. This is not to be taken fas an indication. that humanity is fon the immediate verge of discoveries which will destroy the rowing menace of cancer, and to Suggest that such discoveries are. imminent, would be to do mankind Jo grave disservice, but it is gratifying to note that progress, however slow, is being made and' that the knowledge of the disease is moving towards that point where a remedy Jmay be found within a reasonable space of ime.
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