WAR ON CANCER.

Grey River Argus, 23 September 1926, Page 5

WAR ON CANCER.

WORLD-WIDE EFFORT. Will Causes Be Found? NEW YORK, September 21. A message from Lake Molionk, New York, states: Strong hope that the concentrated worldwide study now- occuring would result iu establishing the causes of cancer, was expressed by i. distinguished cancer specialist to-day .to the research workers of many countries attending an international symposium called by the American Society for the Control of Cancer. The general opinion was that there was no single cause, but that the disease was usually the result of a combination of factors. Sir John Sutton, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, provided the principal address. He said: “Never in the history of medicine have the methods of observation and experiment been co-ordinated and brought to bear with sucn strength fol the control of any- other particular disease as they have for cancer. Before all things, surgeons long for some discovery which will enable them to cm e cancer by some cunning drug introduced into the circulation, and thus abolish the long series of distressing operations. Doctor Sampson Handley, Surgeon of the Middlesex Hospital, London, said that in England, direct public propaganda plays a secondary and relatively unimportant part in the control of cancer. Englishmen do not respond to broadcast publicity of the danger ol Ca other speakers described the work being done in European countries for the control of cancer.