title: The quest by three giants of science for an understanding of cancer.
abstract: Understanding the causes of cancer remains a major area of uncertainty, and many serious proposals have been made from a variety of standpoints over the years. This article discusses the first genetic hypothesis from the turn of the century and two other totally different early approaches to the problem.
authors.affiliation: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Manchester
mesh_terms: D001671:Biochemistry / Q000266:history; D002875:Chromosomes; D005060:Europe; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000266:history*