FIGHT AGAINST CANCER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 902, 20 February 1930, Page 9

FIGHT AGAINST CANCER

DOCTORS AND PUBLIC MUST CO-OPERATE LACK OF INTEREST IN N.Z. Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. "Without the aid of the lay public the doctors can do little, and without the help of the doctors the public can do nothing in the fight against cancer,” said Sir Louis Barnett, emeritus professor of surgery in the University of Otago, at the conference of the British Medical Association. Sir Louis emphasised the value and success of early diagnosis, and outlined a scheme for establishing a research centre at Dunedin and for a Dominion scheme of treatment of cancer patient^. Sir Lindo Ferguson showed a film depicting the growth and activity of the disease. Dr. J. S. Elliott referred to the interest of the King in the Empire cancer campaign, and contrasted the interest taken in England with the comparative lack of interest in New Zealand. Surely, he said. New Zealand had attained a sufficient state of civilisation to join in the battle against cancer. The campaign called for great tenacity, patience and spiritual strength. It was a fight against the powers of darkness, and might yet take the investigations to the cause of life itself. The money given for the campaign would be used in' a way which would give satisfaction to the donors for the rest of their lives.