At the annual meeting of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund
on Wednesday Mr. Balfour pointed out that two important pieces of knowledge had been arrived at in the course of the investigation. The first of these was that the question of heredity in connexion with cancer was almost negligible. This seemed to indicate that the tumours arose owing to the "accidents of life," and were not inherent in the organism at birth. In the second place, it had been shown that the spread of implanted cancer could be checked, although no experiments upon original tumours had been in the same way successful. These two discoveries justified considerable hopes, though Mr. Balfour was emphatic that " it would be a cruel kindness to suggest that we are even now within sight of anything that can be called a new remedy for cancer."
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