The Nature of Cancer Manu Kothari & Lopa Mehta THE NATURE OF CANCER Kothari and Mehta Prof. Smithers of England, in an article published in The Lancet, March 1962, pressed the need ‘some simple bold. state~ ments” on the problem of cancer. ‘The concepts eval ved by Drs. .Kothari and Mehta are both simple and bold. The simplicity of thein apnroach ies in assigning égncer its rightf pac ie Biology—as an intrinsic time-governed senescent prpegss. The bold ness of the approach may ‘ve realized from the rather disconcerting generalization that nothing including the much-maligned envi- ronment causes _ cancer. The very term cancerogen must be dispensed with, The scope of The Nature of Cancer is encyclopedic, for it touches every facet of cancerogenesis. The book is replete with a never before-attempted —integra- tion of the most diverse and up-to-date data on can- cer, that replaces the Piole- lexity on cancer by Copernican clarity. It isa completely new biorea- listic approach towards the Understanding of the Why, Where, What, When and How of cancer. The book will be found useful to the research worker and the