MAYO CLINIC WORK

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1935, Page 16 (Supplement)

MAYO CLINIC WORK

NEW ZEALAND DOCTORS LIKED. DOMINION’S CANCER RESEARCH. 1 ; > By Telegraph—PrCfcs Association. • , ? . > ■ . Auckland, Feb. .22. Two executive • officers bf the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Dr. D. C. -Balfour, president of the. American . College of Surgebns, and Dr. M. S. Hhndertoh, presi-' dent of the Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, arrived by the Mariposa on their way to attend the annual congress of the Royal Australasian College, of Surgeons at Melbourne. Dr. Balfour stressed the international aspect of the work of the Mayo Clinic, where there are 400 doctors. He said that Only 5 per cent, of the doctors wishing for a post-graduate training there were admitted. Applications from New Zealanders ' were rarely declined, as they generally were of a higher standard than the 95 per cent who were refused. Dr. Balfour said that in. spite ,of the advances in the treatment of cancer there Were . still about 100,000 deaths yearly front cancer ,in the united- States. He declared that New Zealand’s initiative . in conducting cancer research on her cr»n in the hope of finding the solution that medical men of many nations were vainly seeklfig.fhad won her. the adniiration. of the civilised world. The American College of 'Surgeons was encouraging the establishment of special-* ised cancer clinics throughout the country, and they were proving their worth.