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Indefatigable Professor Maud Slye, pathologist of the University of Chicago, will use her "vacation" to address the International Congress for the Control of Cancer which meets in Brussels next month. Also at Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, perhaps Copenhagen, she will give the case histories of 5.000 cancerous and noncancerous mice, renew her old plea that complete medical records be kept for human cancer as she has kept them for her army of rodents...
Cancer by Inheritance The University of Chicago's remarkable Professor Maud Slye last week did two remarkable things: 1) She autopsied her 119,185th mouse. 2) She published in the American Journal of Cancer strong evidence that susceptibility to cancer is inheritable. But the susceptibility can be bred out of a family by judicious marriage. Like light hair, it is a genetically recessive characteristic, whereas resistance to cancer is like dark hair, a dominant characteristic. Susceptibility alone probably is not enough to insure a person's developing a cancer. There must also be an external factor (a bruise...
Professor Slye's pet idea for some time has been the organization of a central bureau where all human cancer cases would be registered so that studies could be made of the cases and histories be formed of all of them for better breeding of future generations. That is, do with humans what she has done with mice. She has tried to get the American College of Surgeons to keep the records in their plant, but so far she has not been successful. She calls genetics the "last outpost of science," thinks some day people will pay the attention...
After demonstrating that susceptibility to cancer can be inherited, Professor Slye turned her attention to the specific causes of the rise of cancer in susceptible people. She says cancer is not so much a disease as it is a growth-process. She points out that whereas the highest number of human cancers occur in the digestive tract below the esophagus, the same does not hold true for beasts. Of all the mouse autopsies she has performed, about 15,000 were cancerous mice, but only about 25 had intestinal tumors. The difference probably lies in the diet. For long years...
...eminent U. S. women doctors they point to Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, 50, Manhattan pediatrician, and Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen, 70, Chicago gynecologist and obstetrician, as outstanding practitioners. They point to Chicago's Dr. Gladys R. Henry Dick for her scarlet fever work (with her husband) and Maude Slye, 54, who, although no doctor, is an eminent cancer researcher...