CANCER RESEARCH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 11

CANCER RESEARCH

ORGANISING THE WORK CLINICS IN THE CENTRES The proposed organisation of cancer research work in New Zealand was described by Sir Louis Barnett, of Dunedin, wlio lias returned from attending tlie Medical Congress in Sydney. Sir Louis said they already knew a great deal about cancer, how it arose, aiijl what predisposed to it. It was not absolutely essential to know the essential cause in order to do useful work. The idea was to standardise and co-ordinate all the work, in Hie various centres.of the Dominion, so that there should lio no overlapping of effort, and so that the work should be done on a. uniform basis. Each centre was to have a cancer clinic, at which cases would bn .studied by the, physician, the surgeon, the pathologist, and the radiologist, and the appropriate treatment carried out on the most, approved lines. A careful register of all eases would be taken for present benefit and future guidance. Each centre would he equipped with a radium and X-ray department, on tli.e most modern lines. Every Centro would have its appropriate amount of radium and X-ray appliances, with experienced medical men in charge. Radium emanations would also he sent to country places for use in cases which could not. conveniently lie brought to the main centres.

Sir Louis suggested that Dr. Burrows, the director of the radium service in Australia, should be invited to visitNew Zealand to assist in establishing the radium service, and that he mightcollaborate with A. B. Begg, who is coming to New Zealand to conduct cancer researches.