CANCER RESEARCH
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright-'.
LONDON, Nov. 20
The International Conference for Cancer Research has just published a complete classified . report of fill the papers of Professor Archibald Leitch. Summing up, it says the chief developments of knowledge arc contained in Dr Ewing’s paper in which he insisted that cancer must be regarded as a group of diseases. All the foremost authorities agree that cancers are not due to a single invariable casual agent. One paper finally disposes of the prevalent idea that the Jewish race is less prone to cancer than others.
Professor Leitch adds: Within a few years the perfection of radium technique has achieved such triumphs that the development of this treatment is tile cry of the day. Larger quantities or radium are urgently needed. Discussion has failed to reveal support for lead treatment. Blood tests are only successful for diagnosing cancer in 70 per cent, of the cases. It is undeniable that there are more obscure cases hut radiographic methods of detecting cancer in the stomach is most useful. The tendency in the future will be to operate on tho stomach lesions before they develop into cancer.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1928, Page 6
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