CAUSATION OF CANCER

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 297, 1 December 1928, Page 6

CAUSATION OF CANCER

TWO IMPORTANT CONCLUSIONS.

* RADIUM TREATMENT,

(British Official Wireless.] Rugby, November 29. Two important conclusions in regard to the causation of cancer are contained in the annual report of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. They are:—

Firstly: There is no reliable evidence, experimental, statistical or clinical, which would indicate the cause and relation between cancer and the absence or presence or excess of any particular dietetic constituent Secondly; The work carried out in th laboratories of the fund disproves the evidence adduced by a German scientist to demonstrate the infectiveness of cancer.

Westminster Hospital,' where pioneer work in radium treatment has been conducted, and where £20,000 worth of radium has been purchased by voluntary subscription, is opening a special radium amiexe. It Las often been contended that the middle classes experience difficulty in obtaining treatment, which th e poor received gratis ond for which the wealthy could afford to pay. They will be treated at this new institution, where there will be a modern physicist's laboratory, so that emanations can be obtained for the treatment of deepseated cancer. Very little so far has been done in this direction, and it is intended to develop the work which has been so successful at the Westminster Hospital.