Cancer Research

Abstract

IN March 1933 the International Cancer Research Foundation, established by Mr. William H. Donner of Philadelphia, awarded a sum of £1,000 per annum for a period of two years to the Research Institute of the Cancer Hospital (Free), London, in support of investigations into factors which underlie the origin of malignant growths. This grant has provided two research scholarships which are held by G. A. D. Haslewood, who is working with Dr. J. W. Cook in the Research Institute, and by Miss Edna Roe, who is studying the molecular structure of carcinogenic compounds by physical methods, under Dr. Mayneord in the Physics Section of the Radiological Department of the Cancer Hospital. The grant has also defrayed a part of the cost of this work. Under the direction of Dr. Cook, Haslewood has recently prepared a very active cancer-producing compound, methylcholanthrene, from another compound, deoxycholic acid, which is known to occur in the human body. To assist in further developments of this work, the Trustees of the International Cancer Research Foundation have now decided that this grant shall be continued for an additional three years, untir June 1, 1938.