The Campaign Against Cancer

Evening Star, Issue 19923, 20 July 1928, Page 4

The Campaign Against Cancer

International Conference in

London

tow Mortality Among Clergy

German Prisoners Refuse Release

Terrible Tragedy Near Bendigo

Proas Association—By Telegraph— Copyright

LONDON, July 18. Several of the speakers at the Cancer Conference, when dealing with occupational cancer, directed attention to its incidence in workers among soot, coal tar, briquetting, and mineral oil. They also drew attention to the preponderance of cancer in the lip and the tongue in British statistics among smokers, notably these using clay pipes or having diseased teeth. Mr T. H. C. Stevenson (London) commented on the outstanding position of the clergy in relation to cancer. He said that the mortality among Anglican and Nonconformist clergy was very low compared with the rest of the population. Roman Catholic priests and monks also occupied an honourable position. Sir Thomas Herder said that tho question of prolonging life in the presence of cancer winch was neither operable nor capable of absorption by radiation was but part of the genera! question of prolonging the life of incurables. ft had been said that, tho prolonging of life in the case of hopeless diseases was often the prolonging of the act of dying, but no universal rule could be laid down. A patient’s life was his own prerogative, and the problem was only solvable by the exercise of tact, discretion, and constant reflection. The patient was the central figure on the stage.—Australian Press Association.