CANCER TREATMENT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 292, 23 September 1935, Page 6

CANCER TREATMENT

THREE BEST METHODS DESCRIBED. INJECTIONS SAID TO BE DISAPPOINTING. (Special to tho “Guardian.”) AUCKLAND, Sept. 22. A recognised authority on obstetrics and gynaecology, Dr. John Bright Banister, of London, arrived by the Monterey from Australia, to make a three weeks’ tour of New Zealand. “One thing abundantly borne out in my experience,” said Dr. Banister, “is the fact that there is a stage at which cancer is a local disease. If we could get cases when the disease is local, wo could cure them all. It is almost an impossibility in women, however, because a certain proportion of these cases do not have the apparent cause early in the disease which will send them to a doctor. Pain is a late symptom of cancer anywhere. “I think wo have come to the conclusion that the best hope lies in using three methods—surgery, radium, and deop X-ray therapy, or ai combination of these methods as applied to individual cases,” said Dr. Banister, in referring to treatment of the disease. “That is tho line we are going on at the moment. Wo are profoundly disappointed with injections; for example, the injection of lead salts as a means of treating cancer. Results have been very poor in my experience.”