PUBLICITY ABOUT CANCER

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27403, 16 July 1954, Page 12

PUBLICITY ABOUT CANCER

SOCIETY TO REPRINT BOOKLET The Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland Division of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society plans to reprint a booklet about the early recognition of cancer and to make it available on request. This is reported by the chairman (Mr L. A. Bennett), in his annual report, which he will present at the annual meeting of the division this afternoon. The implication of the booklet is part of the society’s programme of spreading information about the diagnosis ana treatment of cancer among the public and the medical profession. Mr Bennett says that, during the last year, a number of films dealing with the early diagnosis of malignant disease, produced by the American Cancer Society, were made available to the division through the Auckland division. These films were specially made for showing to public audiences. Some of them can be obtained immediately on loan from the Health Department, and it has been decided that others will be brought by the division from the American Cancer Society. These will be screened under proper conditions in the division’s area. In September, two well-known

American specialists in the treatment of cancer will visit Auckland, says Mr Bennett. Medical members of the Canterbury division of the society have been invited to attend their talks.