CANCER'S SPREAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 37, 13 February 1929, Page 7

CANCER'S SPREAD.

Rise Due To Decline In

Tuberculosis.

DOCTOR'S DEDUCTIONS

(Australian nml S/.. Press Association.) XKW YORK. February IJ.

Dr. Francis Carter Wuo«l, head of the cancer research institution at Columbia University, New York, says the general view among medical men is that the lower the tubercular death rate is. the more people live on and have cancer.

The decline in mortality from tuberculosis is generally accepted a* a reason for the rise in cases of cancer, simv cancer is a disease of old people, and tuberculosis one of youth. Anything that prolongs the life of the individual in the community increases his liability to cancer.

It is interesting to note that Dr Raymond Pearl, director of the Institute of Biological Research in John s Hopkins University. has just published n statistical study of 7.")00 autopsies.

He say-.- "In xs<i persons who had » jjreat deal of flor'rl tuberculosis there were hut 1.2 per Dr. F. C. Wood. rent with malignant tumours. On the orlier hand, i SSti persons with no recorded lesions c tuberculosis shown at the autopsy v the seme aye. sex. racial distril-uti«!i en so for i';isi' as those very ai-tivelv tulu>rcular. there were '.*..'{ per cent with tumours."

A- a result r>f th-.-e studios th<--(H'cial t leu tiiiciit of M-locted <;i><-~ »if jK'isoiis with iiialigiuilit tuiiiours. wit!: ciTtnin forms of tuberc.iliii, hn* lu-on muU'itnkoii.