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IN an interesting paper read before the German Chemical Society, at the meeting recently held at Kiel, Dr. Otto Warburg said that the attempts made artificially to produce carcinoma by tar-painting or by X-ray radiation showed that the normal tissues contain cells in which carcinoma may begin without help from any outside cells or micro-organisms. There is no cancer bacillus, just as there is no diabetes or arteriosclerosis bacillus. The cancer problem is a problem of cell physiology in the narrow sense, and limited to the physiology of the body cells.
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Cancer Causation: Importance of Cell Physiology. Nature 118, 284–285 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118284b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/118284b0