CANCER RESEARCH

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 150, 29 June 1928, Page 4

CANCER RESEARCH

|V '( ARKADY ADVANCE . (From ''The Post's" Representative.) -■ . ■ LONDON, 19th May. " '-lii' tho debate in.the House of Commons on tho "estimates of tho'Ministry of -Health, Mr* Novillo Chamberlain /Silid with regard to. cancer that a great deal. .ot',.reseaj-cli. liacl been carried on. ■;,T.At-ififeWarch/situl -dealt • with causes. iajccl^treUtinont, ljoth '.in-"this country iaii^Safeoad. They had not yet been 'able to put their finger upon any fact, oi> SQi'ics of facts, which would allo,w tiiem. to say that they had solved ,the problem of cancer—very, far froni it ■—but' fill the time they were encroaching lipon the field of the.unknown; all tho. time they were advancing their /knowledge. " ... .!' The-Ministry of Health had mapped {put a sort of scientific survey of what •'cdiild,.'bo done to:day in the effective 'trdfltmont of. cancer,, taking each part jof'-.tho. body in turn, with tho present state'of skill and knowledge, and they liacl followed that up with a careful and exhaustive -inquiry, into a large number of cases of cancer, and the re-' suits of that inquiry had been examined by a. Dopartmenli'.l Committee set up at tho Ministry ..tif Health about iivo years ago. They had also done something .to bring into prominenco certain methods of treatment which they had ascertained from information derived from at home and abroad had proved particularly effective "in the treatment of. cancer. Those were methods of radiology—tho use of radium itself and so-called X-ray therapy. These methods were costly and were not easily adopted by all authorities, but they believed that by proper organisation nioro effective use could be made of the equipment which they actually possessed. . | They were keeping in the closest touch with a great number of other, agencies, the British Empire Cirncor Campaign, tho public health authorities throughout tlic country, and the local cancer, committees working in 'sonic of the groat provincial.centres. .While they could not s.iy that they were ovon in sight of a cure, or of a motliod of prevention of cancer, never* theless they were on the right path, and ouo day—licono could say when —they might actually turn the corner and n'n'd themselves in the presence of tho goal which they sought. (Cheers.)