CANCER RESEARCH

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1930, Page 8

CANCER RESEARCH

PROGRESS BEING MADE

AUCKLAND SURGEON'S RETURN

(By Telegraph.)

(Special.to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This.Day.

An opinion that there was undoubted-

ly an improvement in the results being obtained by the treatment of cancer with radium as the application of the correct amount was being better understood, but that surgical treatment at an early stage of the disease still remained tho method which gave a good prospect of a cure, was expressed by Dr. Eisdell Moore, of Auckland, who returned by the lonic after spending seven months abroad. j

Dr. Moore spent some time studying the work that is being done in cancelresearch.

Dr. Moore said lie folt it was reasonable to conclude that the discovery of tho cause of cancer was just around tho corner and that it would bo found in the next ten years.

While in Paris he spent some time with Profossor Regaud, of the Radium Institute, where he watched the treatment of cases. In London Dr. Moore spent many weeks at various clinics watching particularly the work London doctors were doing with radium in cancer cases. Westminster Hospital now had an annexe where treatment by radium bomb was carried out. The bomb comprised four grammes of radium valu-

Ed at £56,000. It permitted radium to bo used at a distance of some inches from the patient instead of being inserted in the growth. If tho method were successful it would allow deeper seated growths to bo treated without surgical oxposurc.

Moore attended a conference of

tho Association of British Surgeons at Bristol in May and heard many interesting discussions. In one paper it was suggested that increased benefits might be obtained in cancer eases by raising the body resistance by lead treatment in addition to surgical measures.