CAUSE AND CURE
THE CANCER SCOURGE
WIDE INTEREST IN CONFERENCE. (Received 10 a.m.) United Press Assn—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 17. The Empire Cancer Conference at which Dr Bland Sutton is presiding, is attracting wide interest. The programme includes fifty papers, mostly British, French and American . There are none from New Zealanders. To-day’s papers suggested that radiotherapy was probably the most successful in the early stages. Dr Donaldson (London Hospital) offered the opinion that insurance companies were in a position to afford most useful co-operation by ofmedically examined every six months fering spacial terms to clients, who thereby ensuring the earliest diagnosis. Sir Gilbert Barling (Birmingham) suggested tobacco smoking as a possible explanation of preponderance of certain types of cancer in males, compared with females. Professor Ewing (New York) said that coal tar products produced cancer with greater certainty than any known irritant. —Australian. Press Assn.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10890, 18 July 1928, Page 6
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