NO EFFECTIVE CURE FOR CANCER
LONDON, Dec. 2 (Recd. 6pm).— Although some significant advances had been made, the central problem of finding a cure for cancer still remained, said Sir Henry Cohen, Professor of Medicine at Liverpool University, addressing a meeting in Manchester.
Cancer treatment still depended, in the main, on a primitive and. barbaric precept: “If thy right hand offend lhee, cut it off,” Sir Henry continued. There had been certain indications of a possible solution in the last few years, but any general solution must depend upon the co-operation of all branches of scientific investigation and knowledge. The real goal of medicine was not only to cure and prevent disease, but to raise the general standard' of the health of the individual and of the community.
“Life is not just living, but living healthily,” he concluded. “And a new path of medicine must be directed to this.”—Special N.Z.P.A. Correspondent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 13 December 1949, Page 5
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