CANCER RESEARCH

Northland Age, Volume XVIII, Issue 37, 11 February 1949, Page 3

CANCER RESEARCH

; I Sir.—Twenty-four years ago Ellis Barkie wrote, “Cancer, how it is caus- [ ed ; how it can be prevented.” four years later an enlarged edition of some 500 pages appeared. In the introduction the late Sir W. A. Lane, surgeon to Hospital and to the King, wrote as follows : “Mr. Barkie has shown us the way .to Conquer cancer—that it is by I no means a “mystery disease” to be j discovered by scientists and test j tubes. The researchers have obscur- j ed its causation by details incorupre- | hensible even to medical men.

“The facts show to all endowed vith plain common sense that cancer is a commonplace disease due to commonplace causes which can be avoided—whereas the researchers have refused to consider these plain facts as shown in Mr. Barkie’s book, and have preached the disastrous doctrine that the disease is not due to our diet. “Cancer reasearch, though pursued for decades at enormous expense, has been terribly barren.” So wrote a celebrated surgeon. Is it not time that propaganda be diverted from it to educating the public how to avoid this deadly dreadful disease which another celebrated surgeon declared had never been and never could be cured by “early operation”— (except on the skin). The cases that were cuied never had cancer, for every suspicious bump is promptly cut out. Yours, etc., MEDICO.