TO COMBAT CANCER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3874, 22 November 1928, Page 3

TO COMBAT CANCER.

SPECIALISTS CONFER. London, Nov. 20. The International Conference for Cancer Research has just published a complete classified report of all the papers. ~ Professor Archibald Leitch, Director of the Research Institute in t,]ie Cancer Hospital, London, summing up, says: The chief developments of knowledge are contained in Professor Ewing’s paper in which he insisted that cancers must be regarded as a group of diseases. All the foremost authorities agree that cancers are not due to a single invariable casual agent. One paper finally disposes of the prevalent idea that the Jewish race is less prone to cancer .than others. Within a few years the perfection of radium technique has achieved such triumphs that the development of this treatment is the cry of the day. Larger quantities of radium are urgently needed. Discussion has failed to reveal support for the lead treatment. Blood tests are only successful for diagnosing cancer in 75 per cent, of the cases. It is undeniable that there are more obscure cases, but radiographic methods of detecting cancer in the stomach are most useful. The tendency in future will be to operate on stomach lesions before they develop into cancer.