CANCER’S GRIM HOLD.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 21 January 1926, Page 7

CANCER’S GRIM HOLD.

Bell Treatment Examined.

IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY EXPERTS.

By Cable—Press Association— Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. Received Jan. 20, 11.30 p.m, NEW YORK, Jan. 19.

Professor Frances Carter Wood, Director of the Institute of Cancer Research, Columbia University, and officer of the African Society for the Control of Cancer, has returned from an investigation of Dr. Bell’s treatment, in Liverpool. Professor Wood said the injection of colloidal lead, brought at least temporary relief in one out of five receiving it, but the remedy was extremely dangerous, difficult to prepare, impossible to keep, and for the present must be administered only by experts. Dr. Bell’s treatment, while not the final solution of the cancer cure, must be regarded as the most important advance since radium and X-ray, and one which gives hope of much greater usefulness in the future.

Professor Wood declared that unwarranted conclusions had been drawn fpom the very conservative statements in Dr. Bell’s lecture at Toronto Academy oof Science in Novem her, and added that such unfounded optimism is highly dangerous, as it led people into an unwarranted sense of security to the neglect of important symptoms and delay in obtaining proper treatment.