CANCER TREATMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1926, Page 7

CANCER TREATMENT.

NEED FOR EXERCISE OF CARE. NEW YORK, Jan. 19. Professor Francis Carter Wood, director of the Institute of Cancer Research at Columbia University, and an officer of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, has returned from an investigation of the Bell treatment at Liverpool. He said the injection of colloidal lead had brought at least ten-porary relief in one out of five cases receiving it, but the remedy was extremely dangerous, difficult to p>repare, impossible to keep, and for the present must be administered only by experts. The Bell treatment, while not the final solution of cancer cure, must be regarded as the most important advance since radium and the X-ray, and one which gives hope of much greater usefulness in the future.

Professor Wood declared that unwarranted conclusions had been drawn from very conservative statements in Dr Bell’s lecture at Toronto Academy, of Science on November. 10 s and added that such unfounded optimism was highly dangerous, as it led people into an unwarranted sense of security, to tho neglect of important symptoms and delay in obtaining proper treatment. —A. and N.Z. cable.