CANCER RESEARCH

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1935, Page 3

CANCER RESEARCH

SCENES OF BEST WORK

EXPERT'S IMPRESSION

SYDNEY, February 7. , Comments on cancer research and treatment in Europe were made by Dr. Charles de Monchaux, radio therapeutist at the Diiriedin Hospital and lecturer in radiology at Otago University, who arrived from England .today by the Moldavia after an absence of ten months visiting leading X-ray, radium, and cancer institutes. in' Britain, America, and on. the Continent. He also attended the international radiological congress at Zurich last July and the British radiological conference in London in December. :

: "The general thing which emerges; from these conferences," ,he said, "is that the only way to treat cancer is in special self-contained and properly-' equipped cancer institutions with a team of experts working together. Proper provision should be made for, the treatment of cancer" as Well as research. "Where you get diffusion of. energy and lack of co-ordination these detract very much from the treatment and control of. cancer." :

Dr. de Monchaux added that possibly the-best.research work was being done in London, and the best work in radium in Sweden and France. The biggest X-ray advance had been made in .the United States and* Germany, where they had developed the idea, of higher voltage in the. treatment of cancer. The Cancer Institute at Villejuif, Paris, was beautifully fitted up. Anotherwas the memorial hospital at New York. These two were ,the best examples of properly-equipped institutions and hospitals in the world.,: -.