CANCER TREATMENT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 239, 23 July 1935, Page 3

CANCER TREATMENT

A STATEMENT CRITICISED. (Per Press Association). INVERCARGILL, July 22. ‘‘Dr. P. Stanley Foster’s statement is very sweeping. He seems to look at matters entirely from the surgical viewpoint,” said Dr. C. C. Anderson, commenting oil Dr. Foster’s utterance about the radium treatment of cancer, which lie declared to be “in the melting pot.” ~ . “It is interesting to note, uiAnderson continued, “that his impressions are practically contradicted by those of Dr. A. S'. Moody, of Dunecan, who, though he also is surgically minded, seems to lind a use for radium m all grades of those cancers which are known to respond favourably to radium treatment. Notable clinics of the Old World show that superficial cancers, such as i cancers of the womb and tongue, will respond to radiation treatment just as well as to surgery, if not even better than surgery. Modern surgical operations for the removal or cancers have: been developed to such an extent that it would seem almost impossible for them to be further improved upon, whereas radiation methods are comparatively youthful. Doctors trust that as knowledge grows it will be possible to afford patients even greater hope of recovery than can be offered to-day;”