Your ShelfYour Projects

Cancer and Heredity

50%

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 20, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 16.

Read the full edition

Cancer and Heredity

Of those who are over forty years of age, one out of every eight among the women, and one out of every fourteen among the men, die of cancer. There are many who believe that cancer may be inherited; and among those who have relatives afflicted with this malady, facts of this kind may cause undue anxiety. Most careful investigations by the medical authorities, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, lead to the conclusion that the chances of inheriting cancer are very, very remote.