CANCER RESEARCH

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 February 1935, Page 5

CANCER RESEARCH

N.Z. DOCTOR’S TOUR.

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SYDNEY, February 7. Comments on cancer research and treatment in Europe were made by Doctor Charles de Monchaux, Radio Therapeutist at Dunedin Hospital, and Lecturer in Radiology at Otago University, who arrived from England today by the Moldavia, after an absence of ten months, visiting leading X-ray, radium and cancer institutes in Britain, America and the Continent. He also attended the International Radiological Congress at Zurich last July, and the British Radiological Conference in London in December.

He said: “The general thing which emerges from these conferences is> that the only way to treat cancer is n special, self-contained, properly equipped cancer institutions, with a team of experts working together.. Proper provision should be made for the treatment of cancer as well as research. Where you get a diffusion of energy and lack of coordinal ion, these detract very much from the treatment and control of cancer.'’ Dr. de Monchaux added that possibly the best research work was being done in London, and the best, win'k in radium in Sweden and France. The biggest advance had been made in the United States and Germany, where they had developed the idea of higher voltage in the treatment of cancer. The Cancer Institute at Villejuif, Paris, was beautifully fitted up. Another was the Memorial Hospital at New York. These two were the best examples of properly equipped institutions and hospitals in the world.