STUDY OF CANCER

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12559, 23 September 1926, Page 4

STUDY OF CANCER

WORLD’S SURGEONS CONFER HOPEFUL OF DISCOVERING CAUSES BY CO-ORDINATED RESEARCH 3v Telegraph.—Press Assii.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z Cable Association (Received September 22, 8.40 p.m.) LAKE MOriONK (New York), September 21. Strong hope that the concentrated world-wide study now occurring will result in establishing the causes of cancer was expressed by a distinguished cancer specialist to-day to the re-.-leaich workers of many countries, who are attending an international symposium called by the American Society for the Control of Cancer. The general opinion expressed was there is no single cause, but the disease is usually the result of a combination of factors. Sir John Sutton, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, provided the pi incipal address. He said: “Never in the history of medicine have methods of observation and experiment been co-ordinated and brought to bear with such strength for the control of any other particular disease as they have for cancer. Before all things, surgeons long for some discovery which will enable them to euro cancer by some cunning drug introduced into circulation, and thus abolish a long series of distressing operations.” Dr Sampson Handley, surgeon of the Middlesex Hospital, London, said: “In England direct public propa ganda plays a secondary and relative ly unimportant part in the control of cancer. Englishmen do not respond to broadcast publicity of the danger of cancer.” Other speakers described the*work being done in European countries for the control of cancer.