Cancer Campaign

Northern Advocate, 31 August 1938, Page 9

Cancer Campaign

[Per Press Association. Covyrighr.J CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. The work of the New Zealand bi'anch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society was briefly reviewed. at the ninth annual meeting yesterday. Sir James Elliott, of Wellington, presided. Delegates representing the four divisions of the society in New Zealand were welcomed by the president and by the Mayor of Christchurch. Mr R. M. Macfarlane.

Curable In Early Stages.

Sir James Elliott, in presenting the report, said that the society was distinctive in that it achieved a happy

combination of government through the Health Department, hospital beards, the medical profession and the general public in a common attack upon the disease of cancer. The public would no doubt be very gratified to learn that the society could see, after nine years, a very definite improvement in the results of treatment given. It encouraged the society to believe that it would, as time went on, get even better results. It was generally agreed that cancer, taken in its early stages, was curable, and this was why the society wished to educate members of the public to take advice when they thought all was not well with them. At the moment, there were 2640 cases under observation. ** Next Conference.

The tenth Australian-New Zealand Cancer Conference will bo held in Wellington from February 14 to February 18, 1939. This will be the first time the conference has been held in New Ze'aland. Sir James Elliott was re-elected chairman. He has held this office since the inception 0 f the society. Sir Louis Barnett and Sir Hugh Acland were re-elected vice-presidents, and the finance committee, consisting of Sir James Elliott, Mr A. E. Allison, and Dr. P. P. Lynch, was also i'c-elected.