CANCER TREATMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1943, Page 4

CANCER TREATMENT

CASES AMONG WOMEN. HOPEFUL RESULTS OBTAINED IN AUSTRALIA. Addressing the fifty-eighth annual meeting of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, the chairman, Dr Herbert H. Schlink, commented on the hopeful results that had followed the treatment of a certain form of cancer As far as could be ascertained, he said, the gynaecological department of the King George Hospital for Women had produced the first series of 10year cures in Australia in cases of cancer of the womb. The total number of cases seen since 1930 had been 402, and of these 386 had been treated. The number of cases treated over a period of five years had been 211, of which 105 were treated by surgery and radium and 106 by radium alone. Of the patients in stages one, two and three of the disease, surgery and radium gave 57 per cent of five-year cures, against 9 per cent of cures by radium alone, and in 10-year cures, 50 per cent, as compared with 5 per cent. This proved, beyond doubt, that surgery, aided by radium, was the best form of treatment in this form of cancer. , , , The earlier sufferers presented themselves for treatment,' of course, the more certain was it that they could be cured.