TREATMENT OF CANCER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25851, 23 May 1945, Page 6

TREATMENT OF CANCER

RESEARCH WORK IN BRITAIN ENCOURAGING RESULTS (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, May 22. Further successes in the cancer campaign have been achieved with new treatment known as “H 11 extract.” These are recorded by Drs Cronin Lowe and Gerald Ollerenshaw, of the Hosa Research Laboratories, says the journal Medical World. The journal says that of 677 cases, all described as being beyond further treatment and therefore hopeless, treated during last year, 67.8 per cent, had the growths reduced or arrested. In some cases there was a complete disappearance of the tumours.

The report on the year’s work says that since 1940 more than 2500 cases had been given H 11, and the longest cases recorded had not had a recurrence during four years. Five years without a recurrence is regarded in medical circles as necessary before a cure can be announced. H 11 is described as “a glandular extract” and was discovered by a team of research scientists led by Mr J. H. Thompson.