AVOID WORD “CANCER”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 232, 28 June 1935, Page 13

AVOID WORD “CANCER”

Recommendation By Doctor The advisability of avoiding the word “cancer” as much as possible, especially among the liiity, and of substituting for it the word “tumour” where possible, as “tumour clinic” ami “tumour treatment,” instead of the expressions “cancer clinic” and “cancer treatment,” are among tlie specific recommendations recently made by Dr. C. de Monchaux, following a ten-months’ tour abroad at the’instance of the New Zealand Branch of tlie British Empire Cancer Campaign Society. Dr. de Monchaux’s other recommendations include: — Strict maintenance of the policy of centralisation with concentrated effort and co-ordination of work throughout New Zealand; some system of financed transport so that people in districts remote frqiu a centre can have treatment on equal terms with local residents,; the installation of special generators, with the new valve rectified plants, to obviate fluctuations of line voltage and to ensure stable electrical supply to deep therapy units; the segregation of radiodiagnostic and radio-therapeutic departments; the more general use of preoperative irradiation, especially as a routine in the treatment of operable cases of cancer of the breast, ovary, corpus uteri and rectum; and the provision of adequate pre- and post-graduate training in the recognition and treatment of malignant disease.