Health School Project May Link Smoke Tars To Cancer in Animals

Nutritionists at the University Schools of Public Health have discovered a process for producing breast cancer in female rates that may soon tell them something about the relationship of cancer to cigarette smoke.

Frederick J. Stare '47, who reported the discovery yesterday to a science luncheon in Boston, said it also might be the first step in tailor-making a chemical to prevent and control some forms of cancer.

It was the first time science had succeeded in producing cancer 100 percent of the time in a given body site by injecting a chemical into the veins. The substance used was a man-made chemical known as dmba.

Stare said the discovery could be used in further experiments to find out what if anything cigarette smoke has to do with cancer. He suggested that tars from cigarette smoke could be injected along with dmba to note if the mice developed lung cancer.