MILLION DEATHS A YEAR

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 18 September 1934, Page 9

MILLION DEATHS A YEAR

PLEA FOR CANCER RESEARCH EMINENT DOCTOR'S N.Z. TOUR ' TIME MUST EVOLVE A CURIE. (By Tele# rppti—Press Association.j AUCKLAND, Sept. 17. An. earnest plea on behalf of medical research, particularly into cancel’, was made at the Auckland Rotary Club by l>r. H. M. Moran, an eminent Sydney specialist in radiotherapy, who arrived by the Niagara in the morning to begin a tour of New Zealand under the auspices of the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. I>r. Moran is adviser on radiotherapy to the New South Wales .Government, a member of the Medical Registration Board of New South Wales and consultant for radium treatment at the Royal Prince Alfred and Lewisham hospitals, Sydney, the Royal North Shore Hospital and the Prince Henry Hospital. Formerly he was attached for some time to the Centre Anticancereux at Villejuif, Paris, and on throe occasions in the last 15 years he has visited all the large cities in Europe where cancer research work is in progress. Cancer, said Dr. Moran, in his adu dress, was being fought with three " \ weapons—surgery, X-rays and radium, forged respectively by Pasteur and Lister, by Roentgen and by Madame Curie. “I am here to-day by courtesy of the British Empire Cancer Campaign to plead for research in medicine and perhaps its endowment,” he added. Nearly 1,000,000 deaths occurred each year throughout the world from cancer. In some strange way a higher civilisation had brought a greater susceptibility to the disease, but if it was associated with the higher evolution of man, man’s increasing intelligence must in time evolve a cure. Meanwhile man with the weapons he possessed must do his utmost to relieve suffering from the disease while research workers slowly and meticulously tracked down its cause. Such an ideal surely was consonant with those of Rotary.