TREATMENT OF CANCER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 January 1926, Page 5

TREATMENT OF CANCER.

DR BELL’S REMEDY. AN IMPORTANT ADVANCE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION - COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, Jan. 19. Professor Francis Carter Wood, director of the Institute of Cancer Research at Columbia University, and. an officer of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, lias returned from an investigation of the Bell treatment at Liverpool. He said the injection of colloidal lead brought at least temporary relief in one out of five receiving it, but the remedy was extremely dangerous and difficult to prepare. It was impossible to keep, and for the present must be administered: only by experts. “The Bell treatment, while not the final solution of the cancer cure question, must be regarded as the most important advance since radium and Xray, and one which gives hope of much greater usefulness in the future,’’ Professor Wood declared. Unwarranted conclusions had been drawn from the very conservative statements in Dr Bell’s lecture at the Toronto Academy of Science on November 10. Professor Wbod added: “Such unfounded optimism is highly dangerous, as it has led people into an unwarranted sense of security to the neglect of important symptoms and delay in obtaining jumper treatment. ’ ’