CANCER PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1936, Page 5

CANCER PROBLEM

A MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK (Per Press Association —Copyright). WELLINGTON, June 9. A feeling among recently-qualified medical graduates that there was an improved and more hopeful outlook on the cancer problem was mentioned by the president of the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society, Doctor J. S. Elliott at the annual meeting of the branch to-dav.

Dr Elliott described treatment facilities, developments in radium and X-rays, and developments in physical and pathological services, adding that the necessity for better instruction in cancer had been realised by medical and school authorities. At main hospitals, final year medical students pow attended in rotation meetings of cancer committees and mere brought into contact with large groups of cases of the disease in a way which was never possible in ordinary hospital practice. The Hon. P. Fraser, Minister , of Health, spoke of the widespread influence of the Society in the study and control of cancer. He said: “Cancer j still stands second only to heart disease as a cause of death, and, as In | tile case of the latter, the crude death rate is increasing. The Government are fully alive to the very great importance of the work of the Society, and will render whatever support, and assistance ’there may be.possible from time to time in the important humanitarian work it is undertaking.”