CANCER CAMPAIGN

Southland Times, Issue 20536, 12 July 1928, Page 7

CANCER CAMPAIGN

RESULTS OF RESEARCH ENCOURAGING PROGRESS MADE EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Rugby, July 10. At an international conference, which has been convened by the British Empire Cancer Campaign and which begins in London next week, 120 delegates from 16 countries and 300 British delegates will discuss every aspect of the cancer problem. The annual report presented yesterday of the British Empire Cancer Club Campaign, although containing no announcement of any spectacular discovery, shows encouraging results in several of the lines of investigation which were followed by scientists working in different centres. Among the points mentioned in the report are: A large measure of success has been achieved in ex-, periments on animals designed to produce anti-bodies. Experiments to ascertain whether cigarette smoking was the cause of the disease had not confirmed this suspicion. Radium treatment met with success. An important result also followed the work of Dr Lumsden, of Lister Institute, who succeeded irt causing supplanted cancer in rodents to disappear by means of a process of vaccination. He has now succeeded, although only in a simple case, in causing the disappearance of spontaneous cancer. The cells serve as inoculation and so call forth the natural powers of resistance. ■ It has beep found that after the tumour has been able to disappear the animal becomes immune to cancer and cannot again be infected with it.—British Official Wireless.