CANCER TREATMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19993, 9 November 1927, Page 9

CANCER TREATMENT

METHODS ABROAD AUSTRALIAN DOCTOR ’ S IMPRESSIONS (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Nov. 7. Extensive investigations have been completed by Drs. Maran and Molesworth on behalf of the Sydney Cancer Research Fund in the United Kingdom and on the Continent.

Dr. Maran devoted special attention to radium treatment while Dr. Molesworth concentrated on X-rays and skin aspects. He was specially impressed by the remarkable work at Breslau, where the skin hospital has 200 beds and a paid part-time staff of 20. Similarly at Zurich there is a special hospital. Both are supported entirely by the State. Dr. Molesworth is of opinion that Australia will have to face the question of abandoning the system of voluntarily supported honorary staffed hospitals, though he does noc advocate full time staffs. He extolls the Continental system, under which juniors do the routine work, but submit the higher problems to the judgment of specialised heads, thus ensuring continuity o? research.

Dr. Molesworth was not prepared to discuss Dr. Gye’s cancer findings, but said that he had gathered the impression that Dr. Gye had cast the whole of his theories into the melting-pot because previous deductions had been somewhat premature.