FIGHT AGAINST CANCER

Shannon News, 15 February 1927, Page 4

FIGHT AGAINST CANCER

♦— . SPECIAL PLEA FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS DUNEDIN, Last Night. The public will probably be disappointed at the outcome of the discussion in the Medical Congress on problems associated with cancer, for no new views were put forward either in regard to the cause or cure of the malignant disease. Professor P. MacCallum (Melbourne (University) uttered a warning against the extravagant claims made from time to time and deplored the spurious prominence given some of these. He was sceptical concerning the alleged spread of cancer, for in many instances investigation of statistics showed that the data were insufficient, vitiated, or wrongly applied. Some interesting work on heredity in relation to cancer had . been carried out by Miss Slye, who had found out that so far as mice ar» concerned, cancer was dependent on. true inherited characters. It was too early yet to pass a final judgment on the work of Dr. Gye, whose claim that a certain form of malignant disease was due to an ultramicroscopic virus and a chemical specific factor had been challenged in Liverpool. Dr. Blair Bell had treated patients with a colloidal form of lead and claimed success, and a great deal of