EMPIRE CANCER CAMPAIGN.
APPEAL SECRETARY'S VISIT. (Fy Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The national appeal secretary of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society, Mr. Ernest Stanford, arrived from London to-day. Mr. Stanford said he thought the general tendency now was to regard the problem of the treatment or prevention of cancer as one which would take considerable time in elucidation. Progress has been very steady, hut it was largely a process of elimination, as it was not thought that cancer was due to one cause only, but to a group of conditions.
In the past three years £200,000 had been raised for the campaign, said Mr. Stanford. He praised the work of the New Zealand branches of the society.
"A department lias heen set up to discover whether the exhaust fumes from lieavv commercial vehicles lias any relationship to cancer of the lungs." he said. "It is highly prohoble that .there is no such relationship, but we have to he sure. They are also trying to find out whether short wireless waves can be used in the treatment of cancer. That is being tried out at the Newcastle branch." #
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 1 September 1936, Page 15
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188EMPIRE CANCER CAMPAIGN. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 1 September 1936, Page 15
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