CANCER TREATMENT

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 115, 8 February 1935, Page 11

CANCER TREATMENT

Comments by New Zealand Doctor LONDON LEADS RESEARCH (Received. February 7, 11.5 p.m.) Sydney, February 7. Comments on cancer research and treatment in Europe were made by Dr. Charles de Monchaux, radio therapeutist at the Dunedin Hospital and lecturer in radiology at Otago University, who arrived from England to-day by the Moldavia after an absence of. 10 months visiting leading X-ray, radium and cancer institutes in Britain, America and on the Continent He also attended the international radiological congress at Zurich last July and the British radiological conference in London in December.

“The general thing which emerges from these conferences,” he said, “is that the only way to treat cancer is in special self-contained and properlyequipped cancer institutions with a team of experts working together. Proper provision should be made for the treatment of cancer as well as research. “Where you get diffusion of energy and lack of co-ordination these detract very much from the treatment and control of cancer.” Dr. de Monchaux added that possibly the best research work was being done in London, and the best work in radium in Sweden and France. The biggest X-ray advance had been made in. the United States and Germdny, where they had developed the idea of higher voltage in the treatment of cancer. The Cancer Institute at Villejuif, Paris, was beautifully fitted up. Another was the memorial hospital at New York. These two were the best examples of properlyequipped institutions and hospitals in the world.