§ 50. Miss Vickersasked the Minister of Health if he is aware of the increase in cancer of the breast in Great Britain; and what action he is taking for additional research into this problem.
§ Mr. VosperI assume my hon. Friend is referring to the paper recently published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation. This does not suggest any new line of investigation, but extensive research into this problem is always going on.
§ Miss VickersWhile thanking my right hon. Friend for that reply, may I ask if he is in consultation with countries such as Japan, where the figures have fallen? Is he aware of the Hamburg scheme, run in connection with the child welfare clinics, which has proved so beneficial in this type of case?
§ Mr. VosperI cannot follow my hon. Friend into all her supplementary. This report covered a very large number of years, and my information is that in the last five years there has been no rise.
§ Mr. Farey-JonesWill my right hon. Friend consider using the good offices of his Department to amalgamate the three cancer research organisations at present operating in this country, and will he also give his blessing to the organisation known as Cancer Anonymous which is studying this problem?
§ Mr. VosperThis is a somewhat different and, I suspect, controversial question, and I would not wish to comment on it at this stage.
§ Mr. NabarroA very distinguished performance, if I may say so to my right hon. Friend.