1. The more active state anti-cancer charities, such as the Queensland Cancer Trust (est. 1929) and, later, the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria (est. 1937), sought to educate the public about signs and symptoms of cancer and encourage people to seek medical attention early. These bodies drew on the experience of cancer charities in the US and the UK with which they were affiliated. For example, a Victorian pamphlet urged readers that '[e]very case of cancer is an emergency…. The early application of proper treatment is very necessary for the cure of cancer. In some forms the opportunities for a favourable result decrease with each week's delay'. (7-8). The message was 'do not delay' - also the core message of cancer education in America - and, indeed, the Victorian association used the American Society for the Control of Cancer's materials as the basis for its publications. The Queensland Cancer Trust used print material from the British Empire Cancer Campaign but teamed it with more strident publicity than the British approach. Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria, What Every Adult Should Know About Cancer (Melbourne: Royal Australian College of Surgeons, 1940)
2. Report, op. cit. (note 7). On the differing British and American approaches, see R.A. Aronowitz, 'Do Not Delay: Breast Cancer and Time, 1900-1970', Milbank Memorial Fund, 79 (2001), 355-86
3. E. Toon, "'Cancer as the General Population Knows It": Knowledge, Fear, and Lay Education in 1950s Britain', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (2007), 116-38.
4. Young and McFadyen, op. cit. (note 2).
5. NSW Parliamentary Debates, op. cit. (note 75), 924, 925. Compare with Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria, op. cit. (note 21), 15.