CANCER.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1926, Page 2

CANCER.

BELL CANCER CURE.

A PROFESSOR’S REPORT. [BY TELEGRAPH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION NEW YORK, Jan. 19. Professor Francis Carter Wood, Director of the Institute of Cancer Research at Columbia University, and an officer of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, has returned from nu investigation of the Bell treatment at Liverpool. He said that the injection of colloidal lead brought at least temporary relief in the case of one out of five receiving it, hut the remedy was extremely dangerous. It. was difficult to prepare, and impossible to keep, and for the present, it must be administered only by experts. The Bell treatment, while not a filial solution of the cancer cure, must' be regarded as the most important advance since Radium and the X-ray, and one which gives the hope of much greater usefulness in the future.

Dr AVood declared that an unwarranted conclusion had been drawn from very conservative statements in. Dr Bell’s lecture at the Toronto Academy of Science on November 10th., and lie added that such unfounded optimism is highly dangerous, as it has led people into an unwarranted sense of security to the neglect of important symptoms; and into delay in obtaining proper treatment.