During the past decade the carcinogens responsible for many individual kinds of cancer have been identified, but these discoveries have not greatly altered our general concepts of factors which predispose to, or initiate cancer. The most substantial advances have been in our understanding of the phenomena associated with cancer. These have led to more sophisticated speculations about mechanisms; we may now be within sight of understanding the nature of the disease.
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