CANCER PROBLEM.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 July 1928, Page 7

CANCER PROBLEM.

EXPERTS CONFER.

World-Wide Effort To Grapple With Disease. SUCCESS ACHIEVED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 11. At the international conference which has been convened by the British Empire Cancer Campaign, and which is to be commenced in London next week, 120 delegates from 16 countries, and 300 British delegates, will discuss every aspect of the cancer problem.

The annual report was issued on Monday. Although it contains no announcement of any spectacular discovery it shows encouraging results iu several of the lines of investigation which have been followed by scientists working in different centres.

The report refers to the large measure of success which has been achieved in experiments on animals designed to produce anti-bodies. Experiments to ascertain whether cigarette-smoking was the cause of the disease have not continued that suspicion. Radium treatment has met with success.

Important results have also followed the work of Dr. Lumsden of the Lister Institute, who lias succeeded in causing supplanted cancer in rodents to disappear by means of a process of vaccination. He has now succeeded, although only in simple cases, in causing the disappearance of spontaneous cancer cells which serve as an inoculation and so call forth the natural powe:s of resistance.

It has been found that after a tumour has disappeared the animal becomes immune to cancer and cannot again L>e infected with it.