CANCER CAMPAIGN

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 241, 12 July 1928, Page 11

CANCER CAMPAIGN

ENCOURAGING RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION' IMPORTANT CONFERENCE IN LONDON (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, July 10. At the International Conference, which has been convened by the British Empire Cancer Campaign, and which begins in London next week, 120 delegates from sixteen countries, and 300 British delegates will discuss every aspect of tho cancer problem. The annual report presented yesterday of the British Empire Cancer CJub Campaign, although containing no (announcement of any- spectacular discovery, shows encouraging results in several of the lines of investigation which have been followed by scientists working in different centres. Among the points mentioned in the report are that a large measure of success has been achieved in experiments on animals designed to produce antibodies. Experiments to ascertain whether cigarette smoking was the cause of the disease, had not confirmed this suspicion. Radium treatment had met with success. An important result also had followed the work of Dr. Lumsden, of the Lister Institute, who had succeeded in causing supplanted cancer in rodents to disappear by means of a process of vaccination. Dr. Lumsden lias now succeeded, although only in a simple case, in causing the disappearance of spontaneous cancer. Various methods are employed in that, formaline being used to inflict injury on injured cancer cells and serve as inoculation, and so call forth natural powers of resistance. It has been found that after a tumor has been able to disappear, an animal becomes immune to cancer, and cannot again be infected with it.