PROBLEM OF CANCER
“Significant Advances” (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 19. The problem of cancer will be solved, “in the foreseeable future” believes a distinguished Australian surgeon, Colonel E. E. Dunlop, who is visiting J< ew Zealand as president of the. Victorian Ex-Prisoners of War and Relatives’ Association. Colonel Dunlop is a consulting surgeon and holds teaching positions at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, at the Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, where he specialises ih head and neck cancer, and at the Peter MacCallum Institute, a radio-therapy centre where he specialises in mouth and throat cancer. Colonel Dunlop said today that increased knowledge and technical advances had enabled surgeons to do far more formidable operations than' they could formerly have attempted. The most significant advances had been made in the field of medicine. He had seen people virtually under sentence of death able to rise to their feet and in one degree or other resume normpl life.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29853, 20 June 1962, Page 12
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