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GRAPHS showing the relation between the incidence of cancer and of tuberculosis in different age groups are submitted by D. Barron Cruickshank. The author connects these with a theory which postulates the existence of a Bacillus tuberculosis ‘phage’ which causes cancer, the relative tendency of the hypothetical ‘complex’ of bacillus and ‘phage’ to break down determining how many persons die of cancer and how many of tuberculosis in any age group.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 143, 122 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143122b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143122b0