CANCER RESEARCH

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 236, 18 September 1934, Page 3

CANCER RESEARCH

Plea For Assistance

DR. MORAN’S CAMPAIGN

By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, Sept. 17

An earnest plea on behalf of medical research, particularly into cancer, was made at the Auckland Rotary Club by Dr. 11. M. Moran, an eminent Sydney specialist in radiotherapy, who had 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. Dr. Moran is advisor on radiotherapy to the New South Wales Government, a member of the Medical Registration Board of New So,uth Wales and consultant for radium treatment at the Royal, Prince Alfred and Lewisham Hospitals in Sydney, and the Royal North Shore Hospital and Prince Henry Hospital. Formerly he was attached for some time to the centre anti-cancereux at Ville,juif, Paris, and on three occasions in the last 15 years he has visited all tho large cities in Europe where cancer research work is in progress.

Cancer, said Dr. Moran in his address, was being fought with three weapons—-surgery, X-rays and radium —forged respectively by Pasteur and Lister, by Poentgen and by Madame Curie,

“I am here to-day by courtesy of tho 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 tho world from cancer. In some strange way higher civilisation had brought greater susceptibility to the disease, but if it was associated with the higher evolution of man, man’s increasing intelli-

gence must in lime evolve a cure. “Meanwhile, man with the weapons ho possessed must do his utmost to relieve the suffering from disease while researchers slowly and meticulously tracked down its cause. Such ideal surely was consonant with those of Rotary.