CANCER TREATMENT

Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 4

CANCER TREATMENT

RADIUM AND SURGERY

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

INVERCARGILL, This Day.

"Dr. Stanley Foster's statement is very sweeping; he seems to look at matters entirely from the surgical viewpoint," said Dr. C. C. Anderson in commenting on Dr. Foster's utterance regarding radium treatment .of cancer, which he declared to be "in the melting pot." "It is interesting to note," Dr. Anderson continued, "that his impressions are practically contradicted by those of Dr. H. S. Moody, of Dunedin,1 who, despite the fact that he also is surgically minded, seems to find use for radium in all grades of those cancers which are known- to respond favourably to radium treatment. Notable clinics of the Old World have shown that superficial cancers, such as cancers of the womb and tongue, will respond to radiation treatment just as well as to surgery, if not even, better. Modern surgical operations for removal of cancers have been developed to such an extent that it would seem almost impossible for them to be further improved upon, whereas radiation methods are comparatively youthful. Doctors trust that as knowledge grows it will be possible to aflord patients an even greater hope of recovery than can be offered today." '