AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.} WAR ON CANCER. NEW YORK, September 21. A message from Lake Molionk, New York, states: Strong hope that the concentrated world-wide study now orb ■ curring would result in establishing tire, causes of cancer, was expressed by a distinguished cancer specialist to-day to the research workers of many countries attending an international symposium called by the American Society • for the Control of Cancer. The general opinion was that there was no single cause, but that the disease was . usually the result of a combination of*"* factors. Sir John Sutton, President of the Royal College 'of Surgeons, provided the principal address. He said : “ Never in the history of medicine ha ve the methods of observation and experiment been co-ordinated and brought to bear with such strength for the control of any other particular disease ns they have for cancer. Before all things, surgeons long for some discovery which wit] enable them to cure cancer by some cunning drug introduction into the circulation, and thus abolish the long series of distressing operations. Doctor Sampson Handley, Surgeon of the Middlesex Hospital, London, said that in England, direct propaganda plays a secondary and relatively unimportant part in the control of cancel'. Englishmen do not respond to broadcast publicity of the danger of cancer. Other speakers described the work being done in European countries for the control of cancer. ISLAND DEVASTATED. NEW YORK, Sept. 21. ■ The Island of Dimfi, in the Bahamas, 130 miles from Nlissau, was devastated by the hurricane of Inst week, according to the reports reaching Miami. Those arc confirmed by the crews of tug boats which arrived on Tuesday from that vicinity. They said they did not attempt to land tc ' seek for dtt.id and injured.