CANCER RESEARCH

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 99, 21 January 1926, Page 7

CANCER RESEARCH

INJECTION OF LEAD A DANGEROUS REMEDY (Rec. January 20, 10.45 p.m.) New York, January 19. Professor Francis Carter Wood, director of the Institute of Cancer Research at Columbia University, and an officer of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, has returned from an. invesigation of the Bell treatment at Liverpool. He said the injection of colloidal lead had brought at least temporary ■relief in one out of five receiving it, but the remedy was extremely dangerous, difficult to prepare, impossible to keep, and for the present must be administered onlv by experts. The Fell treatment, while not the final solution of cancer cure, must be regarded as the most important advance since radium and the X-Ray, and one which gives hope of much greater usefulness" in the future. Professor Wood declared that unwarranted conclusions had been drawn ri'ont verv conservative statements in Dr. Bell’s lecture at Toronto Academy of Science on November 10, and added. that such unfounded optimism was highly dangerous, as it led people into an unwarranted sense of security, to the neglect of important symptoms, and delay in obtaining proper treatment. Aiis.-N.Z. Cable' Assn.