The influence of heredity on cancer was a topic for 40 experts in Bar Harbor, Me. last week. They concluded that they knew very little about it. The meeting was called by Dr. (of Science) Clarence Cook Little, head of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory where, since its founding in 1929, the devious ways of mouse cancer have been studied. Some things the experts did not know:
¶ How to define the word cancer (they finally agreed that, for the present, a cancer is whatever a qualified pathologist thinks it is).
¶ Why...
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