TREATMENT OF CANCER
“Only Surgery Effective”
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, February 19. A 'world authority on cancer treatment claims that doctors and scientists have given up hope of finding an effective cure for cancer.
Dr. D. A. Karnofsky, a member of the Sloan-Ketter-ing Institute for Cancer Research in New York, said yesterday that doctors carrying out cancer research were concentrating on finding cures for each of the cancers arising from more than 30 different tissues in the body. “The only really effective way of controlling cancer at present is in surgery," he said.
“But with the Increasing amount of research being done in the use of drugs and chemicals against cancer we may find that they in time will prove to be the most effective weapon against the disease,” Dr. Karnofsky said. About 150 different drugs were being used against cancer, he said. More than 40,000 drugs had been tested at one time or another.
Most of the drugs being used were only prolonging the life of cancer patients, Dr. Karnofsky said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30681, 22 February 1965, Page 18
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