TREATMENT OF CANCER

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21805, 10 June 1936, Page 8

TREATMENT OF CANCER

MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK

FEELING AMONG MEDICAL GRADUATES (PUSS ASSOCIATION TELEOBAM.) WELLINGTON. June 9. A feeling among recently qualified medical graduates that there was an improved and more hopeful outlook on the cancer problem was mentioned by the president of the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society, Dr. J. S. Elliott, at the annual meeting of the branch today. Dr. Elliott described treatment facilities, developments in radium and X-rays, and developments in physical and pathological services, adding that the necessity for better instruction in cancer had been realised by medical school authorities.

At the main hospitals final-year medical students attend in rotation meetings of the cancer committees and were brought into contact with large groups of cases of the disease in a way which would never be possible in ordinary hospital practice. The Hon. P, Fraser, Minister for Health, spoke of the widespread influence of the society in the study and control of cancer. He said that cancer still stood second only to heart disease as a cause of death. The Government was fully alive to the very great importance of the work of the society and would give whatever support and assistance was possible from .time to time in the important humanitarian work the society was