Cancer Research

Despite all the spectacular activity against cancer evident in the various "cures" (TIME, May 19 and June 4), the solidest work is being done, as usual, by the concerted efforts of medical research. A British Empire campaign against cancer was organ-ized last week by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, to which Lord Athol-stan has given an additional $100,000. It has the backing of the Lancet, and all the most influential press of England, both medical and lay. The American Society for the Control of Cancer is doing admirable propaganda work. The Crocker Cancer Re-search Fund of Columbia University, under Dr. Francis Carter Wood, the cancer research conducted by Harvard, Cornell and New York University Medical Schools, all show promising results. A new cancer institute, comprising a 200-bed hospital on Blackwell's Island, and a large clinic, has just been established by the Departments of Public Welfare and Health of New York City.