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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 7. 1962.
Society's Aims
Society's Aims
| 1. | Establish an association of persons, firms and companies interested in the cure and prevention of cancer. |
| 2. | Spread public knowledge on cancer to assist early diagnosis by alerting people to the common danger signs of cancer. |
| 3. | Remove people's misconceptions and unnecessary fears, explain the simple facts about cancer and inform the public that of all diseases, cancer is one of the most easily treated if discovered early. |
| 4. | Invite the co-operation of the public in the campaign against cancer by making the work of the society better known and by increasing membership. |
| 5. | Promote cancer education to keep the medical profession abreast of the latest diagnostic and treatment techniques. |
| 6. | Provide funds for the training of individuals or groups and for the provision of machinery and medical equipment to help-treat cancer victims. |
| 7. | Provide funds for the comfort and convenience of cancer! sufferers. |
| 8. | Co-ordinate and stimulate research work on cancer. |
| 9. | Establish and partake in any movement for research or enquiry into the causes of cancer. |
| 10. | Receive funds to promote the'? objects of the Society. |
In the public educational field, the Society's two Divisions in Auckland and Wellington employ", full-time staff who are available to lecture to groups and show films on cancer. All Divisions engage in professional education and the purchase of equipment for hospitals. In the five major centres in New Zealand, equipment to irradiate cancer has in all cases been provided by the Society. The "Divisions also combine to support current research in Dunedin; the value of the work being carried out there in connection with hormone dependent tumours by Dr Bielchovski has received worldwide recognition. There are also research projects proceeding in Christchurch and Auckland financed by the Society. Valuable work has been done in Auckland in the search for a cancer inhibiting chemical compound.