MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1927, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Austriflia & N.Z. Cable Association.] CONTROL OK CANCER. LONDON. March 20. The contention that the general public should bo kept in ignorance of the facts relating to cancer was disputed by Dr Moynihan, the President of the Royal College of Surgeons, who pointed out that lie has recently lectured on cancer in London, and, as a result, a number of doctors have written to him. stating that patients have consulted them and have undergone simple operations, which probably will mean preventing them having, incurable cancer. Dr Movnihan added that the medical profession must recognise that public propaganda was right. SPREAD OF DISEASE IX I'.S.A. NEW YORK. March 20. Dr George Soper, the Director of the American Society for the Control ot Cancer, addressing that body at Chicago. said that over one million lives have been taken by cancer during the Vast ten years. There were now three hundred thousand sufferers from the disease in the T nited States. Cancer, lie said, had advanced from the sixth to the fourth place among the leading causes of death. Dr Soper added that the reason why cancer had advanced on the list of fatal diseases was due partly to the conquest of the other diseases, hut the great tragedy was in the fact that many of the deaths from cancer were preventable. It was only necessary for the public to learn about the disease to avoid the charlatans. Ignorance,

he said, was cancer's foremost ally. His organisation was engaged in rais-l ing an educational campaign fund oi f one million dollars. Three or four thousand had already been subscribed. £