Fifth scientific report on the investigations of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund / by E.F. Bashford.

Date:
1912
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    [ Fifth Scientific Report of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 1012.] THE MANIFESTATION OF ACTIVE RESISTANCE TO THE GROWTH OF IMPLANTED CANCER. By B. R. G. RUSSELL, M.D. In the present communication there will be considered certain of the problems which have presented themselves during the investigation of resistance and susceptibility to the inoculation of transplantable tumours. The subject of the immune reactions in animals with spontaneous growths will not be entered into, for this has recently been amply discussed in these Reports by Iiaaland (28, pp. 79-85). The sequence in which the various points will be raised has been made as far as possible a logical one, and though it has not been possible to carry this out in every case, still it is thought that the arrangement under the following headings will avoid much redundancy of description, and also preserve the continuity of the argument which runs through the whole series of experiments. The headings adopted are :— The Reaction of Animals to Tumours of various Types of Growth. Simultaneous Inoculation of two Tumours of Different Types of Growth. Can Animals Bearing Progressively Growing Tumours be Protected against Re-inoculation ? Attempts to Arrest the Development of Progressively Growing- Turn ours. The Reaction of Animals to Tumours of various Types of Growth. Wide variations in the rate of growth, and in the percentage of success following the inoculation of different tumour-strains have been observed wherever several tumours have been cultivated over an extended period of time. Further, there are also features characteristic of the growth of different tumours, and it is this point which will be more closely followed in the succeeding pages. Citation of all the published articles bearing upon this subject has already appeared in these u