HOPE DAWNS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 68, 17 February 1939, Page 8

HOPE DAWNS.

TREATMENT OF CANCER

OVERSEAS RESEARCH

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 17. “In my opinion the injection-therapy treatment of cancer is developing so rapidly that it is bound to supplant radiological or surgical treatment, m spite of the advances of the latter method. In any case, research within the last few vears has yielded such excellent results that cancer sufferers may face life with renewed optimism. This opinion was expressed by 1 rofessor Henry L. Brose, of Sydney, an authority on the disease, who arrived this morning after having visited America and Europe to study the latest developments in cancer research work at Detroit. Professor Brose, who was the 1913 Rhodes Scholar lor South Australia, met Dr William Koch, whose cancer therapy had aroused considerable discussion. He was much impressed with the results of the treatment, and he learned from Dr Koch that his injection material was now being tried m London and various hospitals, in Great Britain and the Continent. “Dr Koch is much opposed to any publicity concerning his therapy, as he realises the importance and necessity of convincing his medical colleagues of the efficacy of his methods. Dr Koch’s representatives in London are well pleased with the progicss of the treatment,” said the professor. As an example of the determination to find "a cure for the disease, Professor Brose mentioned that the German Cancer Commission had, in the last few years systematically examined more than 200 alleged cures. Good work had also been done in connection with injection therapv, which was undoubtedly the coming method of treatment.