CANCER CENTRE

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 October 1945, Page 7

CANCER CENTRE

ATOMIC HEALING ENERGY NEW YORK, August 12. Attention has just been drawn to an important field, in which atomic energy may play the part of healer instead of destroyer. Under the terms of a grant of. £1,000,000 from the Alfred Sloan Foundation, the New York Memorial Hospital for ’ the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases will become an. international. study centre. In accepting the gift from Mr. Alfred Sloan, who is chairman oi General Motors Corporation, the director of the hospital. Dr. C. P. Rhoads, said that the principles used m developing the atomic bomb were also employed in cancer research. It was believed that the release of atomic energy might be connected with the cause and cure of the disease. Half of the grant will be used to build as soon as war conditions permit a 13storey building io be known as the Sloan Kettering’s Institute for Cancer Research. The other half will finance a 10-year campaign. . For. the first time .the technique, oi industrial research is to be applied in the cancer field. So important is this aspect of the work considered to be that the Foundation has placed it under the supervision of Dr. Charles Kettering, vice-president and director of. research for General Motors. The “New York observes to-day: “The very forces which are so often first demonstrated destructively may also be ultilis■ed to cure and conserve.”