CANCER RESEARCH

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1930, Page 10

CANCER RESEARCH

FOLLOWING TWO LINES. Cancer research was dealt with in an address delivered at Dunedin on Monday by Dr. Begg, wlio after many years of highly-specialised study abroad has settled down to research work on cancer in Dunedin. Dr. Begg, tracing the beginning of cancer research iii England up to the present, stated that in the earliest period of that very necessary study the work was carried out as a result of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. .It had been shpwn by numerous experiments that cancer cells could survive in different animals for many years, or practically for an indefinite period. There were tumours peculiar to different animals, and these would survive only in animals of the same species as those in which the tumours originated. Thus there were mouse tumours, chicken tumours, and so on. That faet brought about the original overthrow of the infection theory. After referring to the experiments of Dr. Gye and Air. Baiuard, Dr. Begg said that the other side* of cancer research work took the form of therapy, with radium as the centre of attraction. Thus it would be seen that research was being carried out from two distinct angles. One group was studying cause and the other was concentrating on cure. ‘ . - ■ As yet they were all working- more or less in the dark, said Dr. Begg, but although there was a long way to go there was no doubt that the problem of cancer would .ultimately be solved.