Publications of the Research Defence Society, March, 1908-March 1909.
- Research Defence Society.
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Publications of the Research Defence Society, March, 1908-March 1909. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![A surlden revolution of all former views on the nature and treatment of cancer has not been effected. Much of the knowledge inherited can be utilised, much of it must be discarded. I have not dwelt on the initiative, the sacrifices, and the patient toil of my colleagues Bowen, Cramer, Gierke, Haaland, Murray, and Russell, nor on the CD lightened and generous encouragement of the executive committee of the Imperial Cancer Research. It will be evident to all who read my colleagues' papers in the report how much they have contributed to raise the British national investigations of cancer to the premier position among similar institutions abroad. I have not made reference to work by other distinguished investigators, but full credit is given to them in the report itself. Slowly feeling the way from one certain step to another has often simply meant being met by new and unsuspected difiiculties. Each hitherto un- suspected difiiculty when overcome has, however, brought us more nearly face to face with the realities of cancer genesis, cancer growth, and the natural means by which the body protects itself against them ; they all are better comprehended and nearer solution to-day than ever before, J]], J^,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21509025_0205.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
