CANCER RESEARCH
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. PRESENT DAY METHODS [ Australian Press Assn. 1 Received Nov. 20, 11.30 p m. LONDON, Nov. 20. The International Conference for Cancer Research has just published a complete classified report of all the papers of Professor Archibald Leitch. Summing up, it says: “The chief developments of knowledge are containeu in Ewing’s paper, in which he insisted that cancer must be regarded as a group of diseases. AH the foremost authorities agree that cancers are not due to a single and invariable casual agent. One paper finally disposes ot the prevalent idea that the Jewish race is less prone to cancer than others.” Professor Leitch adds: “Within a few years, the perfection of radium technique has achieved such triumphs
that the development of this treatment is the cry of the day. Larger quantities of radium arc urgently needed.” Discussion has failed to reveal support for the lead treatment. Blood tests are only successful for diagnosing cancer. In seventy-five per centof the cases it is undeniable that there are more “obscure cases, but radiographic methods of detecting cancer in the stomach are most useful and the tendency in Tuturc will be to operate on the stomach lesions before they develop into cancer.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 276, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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