TREATMENT OF CANCER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 5

TREATMENT OF CANCER

INJECTION THERAPY HOPE HELD OUT TO yiCTIMS I Fer Prehs Association.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 17. “In my opinion the injection therapy treatment cf cancer is developing so rapidly that it is bound to supplant radiological or surgical treatment, in spite of advances in the latter method. In any case research within the last few years has yielded such excellent results that cancer sufferers may face life with renewed optimism. This was the opinion expressed by Professor Henry L. Brose, of Sydney, an authority on the disease, who arrived by the Monterey after having visited America and Europe to study the latest developments in cancer research work. Professor Brose, who was a 1913

Rhodes Scholar for South Australia, met Dr. William Koch, whose cancer therapy had aroused considerable discussion. He was much impressed with the results of the treatment and he learned from Dr. Koch that his injection material was now being tried in London and various hospitals in Great Britain and on the Continent. “Dr. Koch is much opposed to any publicity concerning his therapy, as he realises the importance and necessity of convincing his medical colleagues of the efficacy of his methods. Dr. Koch’s representatives in London are well pleased with the progress of the treatment.”

As an example of the determination to find a cure for the disease Professor Brose mentioned that a German cancer commission had in the last few years systematically examined more than 2000 alleged cures. Good work had also been done in connection with injection therapy, which was doubled!., the coming method of treatment.