Experimenters obviously can't start planting cancers in humans; but the lack of such research is hindering discovery of a cure, a cancer researcher said in New Orleans Tuesday.
She is Dr. Franeoise Hague-nau of Paris, France, here at the invitation of Dr. Frank Low, professor of anatomy at the Louisiana State university medical school.
A student of the viral theory of cancers for 12 years, she said] evidence is mounting that viruses cause cancer.
Cancers have been taken from animals and replanted in others, she said, and they also have been taken from humans and replanted in humans.
But it's unlikely, she noted, ,t humans will receive injec-
tions aimed at deliberately creating cancers before a sure-cure vaccine is developed for animal cancers.
In some animals, cancers are believed to have be^en cured through use of a vaccine, reported Dr. Haguenau, an associate in the laboratory of experimental medicine at College de France.
Transferring cancers from animal to man does not prov
