I. Results from Statistical Research

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Just as it is the aim of experimental cancer research to investigate conditions favouring orinimical to the origin and growth of cancer in animals, it is the task of statistical cancer research to study conditions under which the incidence of human cancer will increase or decrease. This study will naturally include the evaluation of results of treatment which, so far, has formed the bulk of cancer statistics. For all the interest of experimental cancer research, it may be doubted if complete understanding of chemical or virus carcinogenesis would place us in a much better position at the bedside of cancer patients than we are now in cases of heart failure, with all our knowledge of respiratory enzymes, etc. But whereas experimental cancer research aims at therapy, cancer statistics are directed towards prevention, and already show results in this field with regard to some forms of occupational cancer. However, it is true that statistics cannot provide proofs. They can find out if correlations exist, and i...

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