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Cancer and Syphilis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Griffith Evans
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The object of a paper by Fry (1930, p. 313)1 was “to ascertain…the relation of syphilis to malignant disease as determined by the Wassermann reaction.” The conclusion reached (p. 322) was: “In general, from the above figures, there is no evidence that syphilis plays any direct or very important part in the production of cancer.”

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 1932 , pp. 79 - 84
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1932

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