CAMPAIGN AGAINST CANCER

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 17 June 1933, Page 5

CAMPAIGN AGAINST CANCER

PROGRESS OF RESEARCH. NEW ZEALAND PLAYING PART. 'lYltigrupli —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 16. Satisfactory progress in the search for the cause and cure- of cancer was reported at to-da-y’s meeting of the New Zealand branch of the Empire Cancer Campaign Society. At the same time the Wellington division and the central committee met. Dr. Elliott, who presided, .said New Zealand was playing its part in the cancer campaign, and the world had learned more about cancer in the last 20 years than it had learned in 30 centuries which covered the recorded history of medicine. The knowledge of the causes, of cancer was being gradually crystallised. It was not improbable that successful treatment- would be discovered! before the cause. At present early case® of cancer were often curable and hopeless cases could be greatly relieved, the pain greatly lessened and life prolonged. , The following delegates to the central committee were present; Otago, Sir Louis Barnett, ' Professor E. D’Arth Mr W. E. O. Reid; Canterbury, Sir H. T. D. Acland, Mr W. S. Newburgh; Auckland, Dr. W. Young and Dr. C. H. Morice; Wellington. DrJ. S. Elliott, Dr. P. P. Lynch and Mr P. Fraser, M.P. Dr. A. M. Begg, the society’s medical research officer, submitted a report upon the work carried out at the cancer research laboratory at Dunedin, lie pointed out that it was inevitable that the investigations should be of extreme complexity and difficulty and several months might elapse before a result, affirmative or negative, could be achieved. The investigators’ courage and. tenacity had been taxed to the extreme as regarded experiments and studies in immunity. It seemed at least true that partial and sometimes complete resistance could lie produced by the inoculation of mouse tumour extract into other animals. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Society, Dr. Elliott was reelected president, Sir Louis Barnett and Sir H. T. D. Acland vice-presi-dents, and Mr R. Darroch secretary and treasurer.

Sir Louis Barnett paid a high tribute to the research, work being carried out by the society. It was only right, he said, that the public should know the great work being done and the good use being made of the funds generosuly subscribed by the people of the Dominion. Sir H. T. D. Acland exoressed similar views.

It was decided that the next annual meeting of the society he held at Christchurch.