CANCER WORK.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16749, 16 March 1926, Page 6

CANCER WORK.

♦— IMPORTANT PROBLEM SOLVED. hr. \V. K. Gyo, whose cancer research discoveries have created worldwide interest, spoke at a meeting at I.ceds, under the presidency of Viscount Lascelles, to launch a Yorkshire scheme, for cancer research, when it was announced that towards a minimum sum of £70,000, which tlie Yorkshire Council of the British empire Cancer Campaign hope to raise subscriptions amounting to £30,000 have been received. In addition, Sir Algernon F. Firth, of Kiiaresborough, staled his intention to give, through the Council, to Leeds University, £20.000, to he applied, together .with £OOOO recently promised by him to the University, towards the erection of a pathological institute In which specific accommodation would be provided for persons engaged in cancer research work. Dr. Gyo said that recent researches had defined in practical terms the problem before them, “W'c know,” he said, "what wo have to solve, and, in my opinion, the most important part < f the work has already been solved. The prospects for a final solution of Inc cause, and probably the prevention, of the disease are so ripe.”

Sir Berkeley Moynihan, chairman of He Yorkshire Council, said it. would he one of their duties in Ibis campaign to convince the Jaiely that cancer today, when early recognised and rightly handled, can often be cured.