Application Of Recent Atomic Knowledge To Treatment Of Cancer
(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dee. 19 Tlie British Empire Cancer Campaign is convening' informal conferences with representatives of medical and scientific bodeis and the Ministry for Health to discuss the application of recent • knowledge in the field of atomic energy to the treatment of cancer.
The King’s physician (Lord Horder) will be chairman of the conferences.
In a message to the annual meeting of the cancer campaign, the Duke of Gloucester expressed his satisfaction that these conferences had been arranged. “I am informed that the Government has formed a research committee on the medical and biological application of nuclear physics, and that several members who attencjed your conferences have been appointed to it,” he said.
Regarding the present treatment of cancer, • the annual report stated that no substance of greater activity than Stilboestrol had been found in two years of research, after the announcement that cancer of the prostate was controllable by that drug. Further research was necessary before any final evaluation could be reached of the use of synthetic oestrogens for the treatment of cancer. The report also notes that cancer of the colon is to be regarded as a relatively favourable field for surgical treatment, and that by special methods of beam direction it has been possible to use new techiques in high voltage X-ray treatment of carcinoma of the lung and bladder.
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Northern Advocate, 20 December 1945, Page 5
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