TREATMENT OF CANCER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23501, 16 May 1938, Page 10

TREATMENT OF CANCER

"DRAMATIC ADVANCES” MANY SKIN TYPES CURABLE LONDON, May 13. “ Dramatic advances ” in the treatment of cancer were claimed by Dr Cecil Rowntree, senior surgeon, at the annual meeting of the Royal Cancer Hospital. He said that during the past year, with the latest and most efficient apparatus possible, they had consolidated the somewhat tentative conclusions regarding the best methods for treating different kinds of cancer. They now knew which were best treated by surgical operation and which by using the low voltage type of X-ray machine. They were constantly curing cancer on the face, lip, and skin, generally with such certainty, simplicity, and safety as had never been experienced previously. If given such cases in a reasonably early stage they were able to guarantee complete and speedy disappearance. EXPERIENCE IN DOMINION HIGH PERCENTAGE OF CURES (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 14. “ There has been nothing that could really be termed dramatic in cancer research for many years,” said Dr W. Gilmour, pathologist of the Auckland Hospital and chairman of the Cancer Consultation Committee, commenting on the foregoing message from London. Many hundreds of cases of face, lip, and skin cancer were treated annually in Auckland, he said, and a very high percentage were complete cures. The profession had come to expect cures rather than failures. An interesting fact was that cancer of the face was more common in the North Island than in the South Island. This was associated with the fact that there was stronger sunlight in the north. There was a very real danger in constant overexposure to the sun.