CANCER RESEARCH

Evening Star, Issue 20029, 21 November 1928, Page 8

CANCER RESEARCH

INTERNATIONAL. CONFERENCE COMPUTE REPORT OF PAPERS Press Assoriilu.i —By 'iV.agraph—C'P)right, LONDON, .'November Jll- - Inlernational ('onferenre. for Cancer Kesearch has just published a complete cla.-sdied report ot all the papers. Professor Archibald .Leiteb (director of the Research Jnstilnte of the Cancer Hospital, .Lnmloii) summing np, says that tho chief developments of knowledge are contained in .Professor Thrum's paper, in which ho insisted that "cancer must he regarded ns a group of diseases. All tho foremost authorities agree Unit cancers aro not, duo to a single invariable causal agent. One paper Jinally disposes ol tho prevalent idea, that tho Jewish race is less prone to cancer than others. Professor Leitch adds: “Within a few years pertoctiou of radium technique has achieved such a triumph that the development of Hus treatment is tho cry of tho day. Larger quantities of radium are urgently needed. Discussion has tailed to reveal support for tho load treatment, and blood tests arc successful for diagnosing cancer in only 75 pier emit, of cases, ft is undeniable that there are more obscure cases, but radiographic methods of detecting cancer in the stomach aro most useful. Tho imi<i»noy in future'will ho to operate on stomach lesions heloro they develop into cancer.—Australian Tress Association.