CANCER RESEARCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 221, 18 September 1929, Page 8

CANCER RESEARCH.

ORGANISING THE WORK

CLINICS IN THE CENTRES.

(By Telegrapih.—Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, Tuesday,

The proposed organisation of cancer research work in New Zealand was described to-day by Sir Louis Barnett, of Dunedin, 'who has returned from attending the Medical Congress in Sydney. Sir Louis said they already knew a great deal about cancer, how it arose, and what predisposed to it. It was not absolutely necessary to know the essential cause in order to -do useful work. The idea was to standardise and coordinate all tho work in .the various centres of the Dominion, so that there should be no overlapping of effort, and so that the Avork should be done on a uniform basis. Each centre was to have a cancer clinic, at which cases would be studied by the physician, the surgeon, the pathologist, and the radiologist, and the appropriate treatment carried out on the most approved lines. A careful register of all cases would be taken for present benefit and future guidance. Each centre would be equipped with a radiu mand X-ray department, on the most modern lines. Every centre would have its appropriate amount of radium and" X-ray appliances, with experienced medical men in charge. Radium emanations would also be sent to country places for use in cases which could not conveniently be brought to tho main centres.

Sir Louis suggested that Dr. Burrows, tho director of the radium service in Australia, should be invited to visit New Zealand to assist in establishing tho radium service, and that he might collaborate with Dr. A. B. Begg, who is coming to New Zealand to conduct cancer researches.