CURING OF CANCER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 69, 14 December 1937, Page 6

CURING OF CANCER

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Injection Into Bloodstream Offers Best Hope LONDON RESEARCH

(By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, Last Night. The cure of cancer "w.-j. not come through radium or X-ray treatinent, but probably from some agent injected into the bloodstream. This is the opinion of Mr Cecil P. G. Wakelev, one of the foremost sur- ■ geons of England, who, with Professor A. Huggctt, an eminent England physiologist, arrived by the Awatea to-day to conduct the fellowship examinations at Dunedin for the Royal College of Surgeons, England. Mr Wakeley said that treatment by radium of X-ray were both so local in their action. Eurther, X-ray generally causcd such debilitation and anaemia of the patient that the treatment was a devitalising one. The cure for cancer would probably come by some agent injected into the bloodstream which would 'pass through all the tissues or the body and eradicate any secondary deposits which might be far distant from the primary growth. "At present, in London, we are experimenting with an extract from the parathyroid gland, and so far our results have been encouraging," he said. "It is too early to cogmatise on the real efficieney- of this extract, but some really good results have been achieved in some cases." Mr Wakeley and Professor Huggett will leave for the soutli to-morrow night and after completing the examination work at Dunedin will make a short tour of the North Island before leaving for Australia, where they already have conducted examinations on behalf of the Royal College of Surgeons. They will fly to India before ~eturning to England.