CANCER SCOURGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 January 1927, Page 5

CANCER SCOURGE.

DEFINITELY CURABLE. IF TREATED EARLY. Press Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyright. . -LONDON, Monday. v Sir Berkeley Moynihan, addressing the British Medical .Association., emphasised the growing mortality, from-cancer and stressed the fact that it. was-defin-itely curable if treated in the early stages. He said in the last twenty years the general death rate had fallen 32 per cent, the infant rate 45 per ceni, and tuberculosis 35 per cent, but cancer had increased by 20 per cent. Doctors were inclined to watch the earlier stages until .certain of the presence of cancer. This made for certainty of diagnosis, but often it also meant certainty of death. There did not appear to be any predisposition to cancer, nor that it was caused by any special food or want of it. While the disease was local and when the growth was accessible, it was definitely curable.

He was confident that research would eventually capture the secret of cancer’s cause. That conquest was a question of money. It had been revealed that no actual cure- of c-an-cer had been effected by N-rays. —‘ 1 Sun. ”