CANCER PROBLEMS

Evening Star, Issue 19923, 20 July 1928, Page 5

CANCER PROBLEMS

THE CONFERENCE DISCUSSION PROFESSOR SELL ARNOLDS LEAD TREATMENT Pre*< Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 19. (Received July 20, at 10.80 a.m.) Cancers of the breast, mouth, throat, and tongue engaged the attention of tho Cancer Conference, the American and British contributors dealing generally with the subject. They unanimously concurred in the value of radium for the treatment of breast cancer in preference to operation, except in the most extreme cases. The speakers differed largely from Professor Blair Bell, of Liverpool University, who suggested tho possible conquest of cancer by lead treatment. He said that he had treated hundreds of people by injections of lead salts, and the results justified his optimism, He had long known that lead arrested the growth generally, but although definite conclusions had not been reached it appeared possible that the action of lead with regard to cancer was both local and constitutional.

Professor Caspar! (Frankfort) supported Professor Bell, but Professor Simpson (New York) disagreed. It was stated that numerous American medical men did not confirm Professor Boll’s contentions.—Australian Press Association.