The significance of the zoological distribution, the nature of the mitoses, and the transmissibility of cancer.

Abstract

The object of this communication is to relate some results of the work conducted under the immediate direction of the Executive Committee of the Cancer Research Fund during the past year. We believe that these results will convince others of the important practical assistance which biologists generally can give in the further elucidation of certain problems of cancer which must be settled before preventive and curative measures can be devised. It will also be made evident that the elucidation of cancer is something more than a problem of human pathology. We shall adduce evidence tending to show that the wide zoological distribution, the character of the mitoses, and the transmissibility of cancer, are nearly related phenomena with a common basis.