CURE FOR CANCER

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 December 1937, Page 2

CURE FOR CANCER

PROGRESS IN LONDON.

[per press association.]

WELLINGTON, December 13

Dr. Cecil P. G. Wakeley, one of the foremost. surgeons of England, with Professor A. Huggett, an eminent English physiologist, arrived by the Awatea, to-day, to conduct fellowship examinations at Dunedin, for the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He said that treatments by raidum or X-ray are both so local in their action, further X-ray generally caused such debilitation and anaemia, or the patient that the treatment was devitalising. The cure for cancer would probably come by some agent injected into the bloodstream, which would pass through all the tissues of the body, and eradicate any secondary deposits which may be far distant from the primary growth. “At present, in London, we are experimenting with an extract from the parathyroid gland, and so far our results have been encouraging,’" he said. “It was too early to dogmatise on the real efficiency of this extract, but. some really good results have been achieved in some cases.” .Dr. Wakeley and Professor Huggett will leave for the South to-morrow night, and after completing the examination work at Dunedin will make a short tour of the. North Island before leaving for Australia, where they have already conducted examinations on behalf of the Royal College of Surgeons. They will fly to India, and Egypt for examinations there, before returning to England.