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THE September issue of the Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana contains an article by Dr. Conrado Zuckerniann, director of the anti-cancer campaign of the Department of Public Health in Mexico, who states that this department seeks the co-operation of the medical profession and the public. Literature on cancer has been prepared for both these groups ; a cancer dispensary is being organized, and a histological service is already open to medical men, to which they may send specimens for examination together with the clinical history. For the sake of standardization of terminology, Dr. Zuckermann has drawn up a classification of new growths according as they are epithelial, mesenchymato-connective, muscular, nervous and gonocytic. As regards nomenclature, the suffix -oma is applied toning growths and -blastema to malignant tumours.
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Classification and Nomenclature of Cancer. Nature 150, 573 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150573b0
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