WAR ON CANCER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 221, 18 September 1934, Page 5

WAR ON CANCER

DR. MORAN’S TOUR ADDREBB IN AUCKLAND [ Per Pre»a Association ] AUCKLAND, Sept. J 7, An earnest plea on behalf medical research, particularly into cancer,was made at the Auckland Rotary Club by Dr. 11. M. Moran, an eminent Sydney specialist in radiotherapy, who had arrived by the Niagara in the morning io begin a tour ot New Zealand under the auspices of the, New Zealand branch, ot the British Empire Cancer Campaign. Dr. Moran is adviser on radiotherapy to the. New South Wales Government a member of the Medical Registration Board of New South Wales, and consultant for radium treatment at the Royal Prince Alfred and Lewisham Hospitals, Sydney, the Royal North Shore Hospital and lhe Prince Henry Hospital. Formerly he, was attached for some time to the Centre Anti-Can-cereux at Villejuif, Paris, and on three occasions in the last 15 years iie has visited all the large cities in Europe where cancer research work is in progressCancer, said Dr. Moran in his address, was being fought with three weapons—surgery, X-rnys, and radium, forged respectively by Pasteur and Lister, by Poentgen, and by Madame Curie. “I aul here to-day by courtesy of the British Empire Cancer Campaign to plead for research in medicine, and perhaps its endowment,” he added. Nearly 1,000,000 deaths occurred each year throughout the world from cancer. In some strange way higher civilisation had brought a greater susceptibility to disease, but if it was associated wth the hgher evolution of man, man’s increasing intelligence must in time evolve a cure. Meanwhile man, with the weapons he possessed, must do his utmost to relieve suffering from the disease, while researchers slowly and meticulously tracked down its cause- Such an ideal surely was consonant with those ot Rotary.