Survey of Compounds Which Have Been Tested for Carcinogenic Activity

This is a pamphlet bound in paper and printed by the offset process, presumably for distribution by the United States Public Health Service. The title describes the contents. It is a bibliography of practically all the important compounds which have been tested as carcinogenic agents. It does not include an enormous number of products which have been used in treating animal tumors in a purely routine fashion in order to see whether any one of these substances, most of them belonging in the group of dyes, have any therapeutic property. While most of the substances studied for their carcinogenic quality have a phenanthrene nucleus, reference is made also to various organic acids and substances such as formaldehyde, for example, and a considerable number of inorganic compounds, of which, of course, radium, thorium dioxide and other radioactive substances are known to be carcinogenic. Also the strange results which have been obtained