CANCER CURES

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1929, Page 5

CANCER CURES

GERMAN DOCTORS’ CLAIM. (Times Cables.) (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.) LONDON, February 8. “The Times’s” Munich correspondent states: —An important announcement in connection with the radiological treatment of gynaecological cancer is contained in a report presented to the League of Nations Cancer Committee by Professors Diederlein and Voltz, who are members of the Committee, and are the chiefs of the Munich Gynaecological Hospital. They declare that surgical operations are now obsolete. From fourteen to twenty per cent, are remaining free from the disease for five years. These had previously been declared hopeless.

“It is not known definitely if the incidence of cancer in New Zealand is above the average in other civilised countries in temperate latitudes, but there is no doubt that this disease in its protean forms holds a prominent place in the bills of mortality in the Dominion,” states the “New Zealand Medical Journal.” “Our country may not be doing as much as she should to attack the scourge of cancer, and at the forthcoming medical conference in Wellington the subject is to be discussed in its various aspects, and Mr Sampson Handley, of Middlesex Hospital, will open the discussion. It is not too sanguine to express the hope that the forthcoming conference in Wellington will mark the advance of a great forward movement in the attack on cancer in New Zealand. . . . There is no problem of the present day like cancer for the medical profession. There is reason to hope that in time this problem will be certainly solved. As Kipling says, man is the natural quarry of the seven deadly sins, but the altar of an inextinguishable hope.”