CANCER CURES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 130, 5 June 1925, Page 8

CANCER CURES

EXHIBITED AT MEDICAL CONFERENCE OPINIONS OF.-EXPERTS. (EXITED 'VKESS ASSOCIATION—COfIUIGHT.) (SIDXEI SUN CABIE.) (Received sth June, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 4th June. Sir St. Clair Thomson, Professor'of Laryngology and Physician for Diseases of the Throat and Noso at King's College Hospital and other large hospitals, exhibited before the congress of American doctors six people, including Rear- - Admiral W. E. E. Martin and Admiral A. D. Cochrane, who arc now in the best of health, and on whom he operated for cancer of the larynx. He declared that 51,000 people were suffering from cancer in Britain, and this number, was increasing by 1700 each year. Very little progress, was being made in the diagnosis of cancer, and ho con- ] sidered that.'anyone who was persistently hoarse for a period of three weeks should be examined by an expert. Sir Walter Fletcher, Secretary of Medical Research Council, said that only four people had left a mark in furthering the interests of science. They wore Henry- VIII., Charles JL, Queen Victoria's Consort Prince Albert, and Mr. Lloyd George. The latter had founded the Medical • Research- Council, and also the Department of Scientific Research. Lord; Dawson, .Physician in Ordinary to the King, described life as one. long innoculation, in which, if given an overdose of struggle, or even of pleasures, they become anxieties. Material progress was so rapid now that we had outstripped man's rate of adaptation. Motors, telephones, and wireless brought men's minds to suck a high tune that they remained the same key all day and all night. The profession would be more greatly consulted in the future regarding the_ suitability of employment, thus entering more closely into the guidance of the nation's life.