CANCER RESEARCH

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 42, 18 August 1930, Page 10

CANCER RESEARCH

FOLLOWING TWO LINES ADDRESS BY DE. BEGG (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. Cancer research was dealt with in an address delivered at a University Club luncheon by Dr. Begg, who after many years of highly-specialised study abroad has settled down to research work' on cancer in Dunedin.

Dr. Begg, tracing the beginning of cancer research in England up to the present, > stated that in the earliest period of that very necessary study the work was carried out as a result of the" Imperial Cancer Eesearch Fund." It had been, shown by numerous experiments that cancer cells could survive ia different animals for many years, or practically for an indefinite period. There were tumours peculiar to different animals, and these would survive only in animals of th© same species as those in which the tumours originated. Thus there were mouse tumours, chicken tumours, and' so on. That fact brought about the original overthrow of the infection theory. After referring' to the experiments of Dr. Gye and Mr. Barnard, Dr. Begg said that the other side or cancer research work took the form of therapy, with radium as the centre of attraction. Thus it be seen that research was being carried out from two distinct angles. One group was studying cause and the other was . concentrating on cure.

As yet they were all working more or less in the dark, said Dr. Begg, but although there was a long way to go there was no doubt that the problem of cancer would ultimately be solved.