CANCER RESEARCH

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81854, 1 October 1906, Page 2

CANCER RESEARCH

ON THE EVE OF GREAT DISCOVERY. Per Press Association. Y\ tilling ton, Sept-ember jy. Discussing Professor Leydon's remarks at the Cancer Research Conference at Frankfort, reported by this morning's "cable, L)r. Mason (Chief llea'th Utiicer) said that the British Government had established a Cancei Research Laboratory in Londqn with money furnished by private subscriptions from residents of Gieat Britain ;ind tlie colonies, subsidised by the Government. The various colonies and dependencies had been invited to send specimens, and these had come from all parts of the world, including New Zealand. Dr. Blashloi'd, director of the institution, had made a series of most careful and farreaching experiments, and had.come o very much the same conclusion as 1 rofessor Leydon. "We are on the eve of a very great discovery,'' continued l)r Alasou, "though Dr lilasliford does not go so far in saying that a cure is in reach. He coilfines himself to saying that he is apparently Oil the point of getting a far better knowledge on the particular cause of cancer. He has l;ik>lv been experimenting with colonies of'an organism discovered by Dr. Doyen, of Paris, who alleges that lie has discovered a curative serum. Experiments on patients were carried on in Brussels and London, but the statements of the British experimonh'rs did noi back up the Paris doctor at all. They agree (hat there is nearly always present in cancer juice an organism ol ihc nature described by l)r Doyen, but they had no marked improvement, geni'faily speaking, j„ 11(v limits oil win an tliey experimented. AH that one can say at the present tune is that the search for the paiticular cause of cancer is exceedingly keen. J sunnn«; ;' m , rc , hn;o o] . rour loading men in various, pai\s of the world who may be able to say any minute that they have got it. So far the question of curation is not so far advanced, but curation will come when the cause of the disease is found,'' said Dr. Mason.

Professor J.eydon, in closing the International Conference on Cancel Meseaich at Frankfort, said the experiments on animals justified the hope that :t would be possible ore long to successfully combat cancer.