TREATMENT OF CANCER
APPLYING NEW KNOWLEDGE
LONDON, December 19. The British Empire Cancer Campaign is convening informal conferences with representatives of medical and scientific bodies and the Ministry of Health to discuss the application of recent knowledge in the field of atomic energy to the treatment of cancer.
The King's Physician, Lord Horder, will be chairman of the conferences. In a message to the annual meeting of the organisation, the Duke of Gloucester expresses his satisfaction that these conferences had been arranged. "I am informed that the Government has formed a research committee on the medical and biological application or nuclear physics' and that several members who attended your conferences have been appointed to it," he wrote. ■ Regarding the present treatment of cancer, the annual report stated that no substance of greater activity than stilboestrol had been found in two years of research, after the announcement that cancer of the prostate was; controllable by that drug. Further research was necessary before any final. evaluation could be reached of the use of synthetic oestrogens for the treatment of cancer. The report also notes, that cancer of the colon is to be regarded as a relatively favourable field for surgical treatment and that, by special methods of beam direction, it has been possible to use new techniques in high voltage X-ray treatment of cancer of the lung and bladder.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 6
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227TREATMENT OF CANCER Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 6
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