CANCER.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 686, 22 November 1921, Page 7

CANCER.

NOT SURGERY BUT MEDICINE. The chief trouble in the treatment of cancer 1 , said Dr Frederick Dugdale, of Boston, before the recent tenth annual convention of the Allied Medical Associations of America, has been that surgeons considered as strictly a surgical disease. He said that while he had no desire to question the value of legitimate surgery under certain conditions, surgical treatment would continue to be rightfully condemned until surgeons learhed that their success depended wholly upon selecting cases on which they are to operaate “and recognise the fact that cancer in certain stages is not wholly surgical, hut frequently surgical and medical combined, or entirely medical. . Dr Dugdale said the same idling applied to X-ray and radium treatment. He contended —basing his opinion upon the fact that( cancer in its inception is a constitutional disease, and that treatment, to be effective, must act through the blood stream —he had for many years been using a treatment composed of creosote, guiaco and essential oils in the form of intra-muscular injections, and that very satisfactory results had been obtained. “Ninety-five per cent, of cases coming under the care of the writer,” said Dr Dugdale, “are those in advanced and' incurable stages, and even under such conditions it has brought about apparent cures in patents living, five, eight, and twelve years respectively. In the hands of others who have used it, they have reported the same satisfactory results as the writer.”