FIGHTING CANCER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 610, 12 March 1929, Page 1

FIGHTING CANCER

NEW ZEALAND’S DUTY VISITING SURGEON’S MESSAGE “It seems to me that New Zealand, as a nation, ha" come of age, and should take her share with the other nations in this international attempt to battle with and defeat the cancer scourge.'’ This is portion of a final message to New Zealand given to The Sun by Air. Sampson Handley, immediately prior to his departure for Canada on the Aorangi this afternoon. Mr. Sampson Handley, who is a noted London surgeon, an authority on the subject of cancer, and senior surgeon of the Middlesex Hospital, London, which has taken a leading part in cancer research, visited the Dominion at the invitation of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association. He attended the recent conference held in Wellington. “At the conference, I was an advocate of the formation of a New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign,” he said. “I am indeed glad that this has been brought into being following the civic meeting which was held in Wellington, and I am sure that a great deal of good will come of the movement provided that the public will take an interest in it, financially and otherwise. “As I have said already in New Zealand, the great need is for public appreciation of the necessity for early examination and treatment. In a great many cases we are getting the patients much too late.” During his stay. Mr. Sampson I land- ; ley inspected many of Xew Zealand’s j open-air schools, and was impressed ! most favourably with what he saw.

“It seems a. distinct advance. not only as it benefits the health of the children, but in that it diminishes the cost of schools," be said.