RT Journal
T1 REport of the international conference on cancer, london, 17th-20th july, 1928.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD September 14
VO 93
IS 11
SP 870
OP 870
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710110056039
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710110056039
AB The International Conference on Cancer held in London in July, 1928, served to bring together authorities from all over the world and was the means of stimulating the preparation of addresses on almost every phase of the cancer problem. The resulting volume is a one volume system of cancer with sections on etiology, surgery and radiation in treatment, chemotherapy, occupational cancer, early recognition and treatment of cancer of the stomach, sarcoma of bone, cancer cachexia, cancer of the lung, diagnostic methods in cancer, effects of radium and x-rays on the body, the geographic and racial prevalence of cancer, and public action with regard to cancer. As might be anticipated, the discussions are sound and conservative and therefore do not offer much in the way of exaggerated promises as to prevention and cure. Here is a work which gives a true picture of the cancer situation, a picture which reveals quite