CANCER DIAGNOSED BY BLOOD TEST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 5 January 1927, Page 2

CANCER DIAGNOSED BY BLOOD TEST

LONDON, 23rd Oct

Promising research work relating to the early diagnosis of cancer is being carried out at the Boss Institute of Tropical Medicine, Putney Heath, by Dr. J. A. iShaw Mackenzie, who discovered some years ago that the blood of a cancer patient differs from that of a normal, healthy person, and that' this difference can be detected by means of a chemical test .

Dr David Walsh, senior physician in the Western Skin Hospital. Hampstead 'Road, N.W., is of opinion that this may be, regarded ,jts one of the most remnrka'ble advances so far made in cancer research. He says:— "It enables the medical man faced with the difficulties of an obscure internal cancer to verify the presence or otherwise of a malignant growth. He can, for instance,' determine whether an nicer of tin- stomach has became cancerous or remains a simple ulcer." After an operation it can be ascertained with- reasonable accuracy by the blood test whether or not the cancer has been wholly eradicated. Dr Shaw-Mackenzie told a "Daily Mail" reporter that a great deal still remains to be done. These tests served to direct attention to medical treatmen of the blood conditions with better hope, that recurrence of the disease after an operation might be prevented. Sir William Simpson, Director of the Boss Institue, said:

"I regard Dr Shaw-Mackenzie's discovery as of the greatest utility in the diagnosis of cancer, and as opening a way in medical treatment in certain conditions."