British Empire Cancer Campaign

Abstract

At the recent quarterly meeting of the Grand Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, a further grant of £1,000 for one year was placed at the disposal of the North of England Council of the Campaign to enable the short wave investigations to be continued under the direction of Dr. F. Dickens and Dr. S. F. Evans. This work, which is a continuation of that which appeared in the last Annual Report of the Campaign and in a recent issue of the American Journal of Cancer, concerns the investigations of the effect of varying forms of heat upon malignant tissues. It was also decided to allot a further sum of £1,338 for one year for the extension of the national propaganda work being carried out by the Central Propaganda Committee. Sir Charles Gordon-Watson, vice-chairman of the Clinical Cancer Research Committee, reported that the organization for the statistical cancer inquiries in the teaching and special hospitals of London and the hospitals of the London County Council and the Middlesex County Council has now been completed. He stated that all these Institutions have appointed registrars to take charge of the records at their respective hospitals and that the headquarters' arrangements are being perfected to deal with the data concerning more'than 17,000 new cases of cancer yearly in the metropolitan area of London. The Grand Council confirmed the recommendation for the appointment in the near future of a full-time medical secretary and registrar at headquarters for this purpose.