"The fiasco of the Braund treatment for cancer should be a reminder to the public of the danger of rushing new .things," says the - annuafl report of the Taranaki centre of the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society. The report says that until the real cause is determined. by the patient labours of the. cancer reseaxcher, physicist and biochemist, the public should keep to the advice and treatment of well. established medical practice. "We have ; thought," says the report, "that a case which has been five years free of any recurrence is?a cancer cure. In the main it is so but our confidence is shocked when cancer recurs after 22 years." The report records a decrease of 167 in the total of cases in 1947, as compared with 1946. The age at which death oecurs most frequentiy is over 60. . .
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 September 1948, Page 4
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144Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Chronicle (Levin), 15 September 1948, Page 4
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