FIGHTING CANCER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20648, 24 June 1935, Page 7

FIGHTING CANCER.

Doctor Impressed by Clinic in Toronto. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. This Day. The apparent increase of cancer during recent years was discussed by Dr C. C. Coghlan, a prominent medical practitioner in Sydney, who was interviewed on his arrival by the Maungauni from San Franciso. He returned from a tour of the United States and Canada, investigating methods adopted by the medical world there. Cancer, he said, only appeared to be on the increase. The expectation of life was ten - ears longer to-day than *25 years ago and .cancer was seldom apparent until after 40. This meant that more people were susceptible to the disease than a quarter of a century ago, the expectation of life now being 55. against 45 years. He said that one of the best radium clinics he had seen was in Toronto. Throughout the ’United State*, except in New York and San Francisco, very little importance was placed on radium treatment, surgery being preferred. On the other hand in Toronto there had not been an operation for uterine cancer for fourteen years, and when he went through the records he found that the results were as good, or even better, than in places where operations were preferred. Radium treatment was more drastic than that used in Sydney, as larger doses of radium were used there. When he left Sydney he thought that radium was pretty hopeless, but he was now feeling more hopeful about it.