CANCER MENACE
NATIONAL PROBLEM. CONFERENCE’S RECOMMENDATION. INVITATION TO NEW ZEALAND. MELBOURNE, May 7. The Cancer Conference being held in Melbourne has decided to recommend the Commonwealth Government fo treat cancer as a national problem and to appoint a National Research Council to develop fully facilities in metropolitan and country centres for the treatment and diagnosis of cancer. It urged that each capital city should aim at erecting and maintaining an up-to-date institute for the treatment of cancer and for research. It was also decided that famous international authorities on cancer be invited to attend a conference in Sydney»two years hence. A further decision was to invite vthe New Zealand Government to cooperate in the holding of an Australian and New Zealand Cancer Congress at Canberra in 1937, when special problems relating to cancer in the Southern Hemisphere can bo discussed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19880, 8 May 1936, Page 7
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140CANCER MENACE Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19880, 8 May 1936, Page 7
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