CAUSES OF CANCER

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 307, 23 September 1926, Page 9

CAUSES OF CANCER

WORLD-WIDE STUDY SPECIALISTS IN CONFERENCE BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION Copyright. (Rec. September 22, 8.40 p.m.) New York, September 21. A message from Lake Mohonk, New York, states: Strong hope that the concentrated world-wide study now occurring would result in establishing the causes of cancer was expressed by a distinguished cancer specialist to-day to research workers of many countries attending an international symposium called by the American Society for the Control of Cancer. The general opinion was that there was no single cause, but that the disease was usually the result of a combination of factors. ■Sir John Sutton, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, provided the principal address. He said: Never in the history of medicine have methods of observation and experiment been co-ordinated and brought to bear with such strength for the control of any other particular disease as they have for cancer. Before all things, sur geons long for some discovery which will enable them to cure cancer by some cunning drug introduced into the circulation, and thus abolish the long series of distressing operations. Dr. Sampson Handley, surgeon of Middlesex Hospital, London, said: In England direct public propaganda plays a secondary and relatively, unimportant part in the control of cancer. Englishmen do not respond to broadcast publicity of the danger of cancer. Other speakers described the work being done in European countries for the control of cancer.