CANCER RESEARCH

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1926, Page 5

CANCER RESEARCH

BELL REMEDY REPORT?

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

NEW YORK, January 19. Professor Francis Carter Wood, . Director of the Institute of Cancer Research at Columbia University, ,& nd ; 'ah officer of the American Society Tbr ih«i Control of Cancer, has retu/ried'lrbfn an investigation of tlie Bell treatment at Liverpool. He said that’’(the’injection of colloidal lead brought 7-at least temporary relief in the ’.case of one out of ‘five receiving: it;"’: bqt the remedy' was extremely dangerous.'. 'jt was difficult to prepare; and ijuppssible to keep, arid : for’.the ; must be administered only by experts. The Bell treatment, while not .al filial solutioh of the cancer cure/, mnetcße regarded as the most'- important;'' advance ' since radium and'the’ arid one which gives the hope ofc much greater usefulness in the Dr. Wood declared that; an unwarranted conclusion had been drawn) from very conservative statements’ ■'in: DrBell’s lecture at the .Toronto Academy of Science bn November 10,and he added that such unfounded’“optimism is highly dangerous, as it has led people into an unwarranted sense', of security to the neglect of important, symptoms ;■ and into delay .in. obfpiping proper treatment.,.