THE KNIFE AND CANCER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5158, 29 July 1927, Page 4

THE KNIFE AND CANCER.

METHOD IN MELTING POT.

SIR THOMAS HORDER’S VIEW.

“I am not sure that the whole treatment of cancer by operation is not in the melting pot. I believe we shall soon arrive at the point at which the crude method of cutting out cancerous growths—which is not a cure in the true sensei—will be a matter of the past.” This statement was madie- by Sir Thomas Horder, the physician, to a gathering of patrons- of the British Empire Cancer Campaign’s Midsummer Ball in Lady Cave’s flat at the House of Lords.

Lady Cave, wife of the Lord Chancellor, is the president of the ball committee.

Sir Thomas Horder said :— “The British Empire Cancer Campaign set out with the ambitious project of finding a cure for cancer, but while I do not think we shall yet find a cure—-unless we get phenomenal luck, which is not common in medicine—we shall by patient and persistent inquiry learn to control the disease.

“The campaign has done extremely valuable* work because it, is now possible for men with ideas to carry o>ut research without fear of unknowingly working along the same lines as other men. For the past three years research combined with treatment has* been carried out at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital with excellent Results. We have now got to the point of treating every patient as a subject for nonoperable measures.”