Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-06-13
DECLARES CANCER IS
CuRAplE WHEN TAKEN
IN ITS EARLY STAGE
Physician, Writing In New
York World, Outlines His
View of Great Scourge.
DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS
sxmptoms Easy to Mistake, Or. Brady
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BY DIR. William Brady in the New York
World.
Physicians frequently pass over can
Ger symptoms at the first examination.
Eternal vigilance from patient and
thoroughness from doctor-is the price
Of safety. Below are the danger sig
nails of i~ncipient cancer. (The World
assume no responsibility for DR.. Bra
dy's statements. presenting them mere
ly as the opinions of an eXpert.)
One in every eight women, one in ev-
cry IL men past the age of 33. dies OF
cancer. After middle life cancer kills
more women than any other disease.
Cancer may we'll be called the living
death, for 1t creepS upon its victims IN
sidiously, drags them down to despair
before they realize the meaning of its
deceptive early signs.
In the United States the prevalence
OF cancer has multiplied. S~eventy-five
thousand deaths were attributed to this
malignant disease in the registration
area during the single year of 1909
O figure which probably represents
about two-thirds of h actual death
rate.
suffer from cancer. 1t is a disease OF
civilization. with an apparent prefer
ence for victims of the highest culture.
The disease can be transplanted in
animals. cultivated through many gem
: erations. Cancer cells can be made to
grow In a laboratory test-tube just as
germs are made to grow. But the Ia
unsolved mystery. Notwithstanding the
tireless cropping of r scientific
workers the world over.
Plausible theories have been adj
vanced by various investigators to ex-
plain the development Of the disease,
but each falls short in rne or another
direction when applied to the manifes-
cations of cancer in actual practice.
Conheim's theory is that cancer Is an
accident of embryonic development.
Certain cells are supposed to become
Isolated from heir natural position in
h embryonic cell layer to be entangled
In III meshes Of another cell layer-a
floating island breaking away from the
parent shore-and later in life assum-
Ing Q rapid and abnormal growth which
constitutes q cancer.
:virchow believed thai some injury.
blow or long continued local irritation
stimulated o~vergrowth OF the normal
cells of h part, the result being cam
Ger. This theory offers a logical expla-
nation ter the pipe smokers cancer of
the lip. the stomach cancer developing
IN the seat of an old gastric ulcer. and
the uterine cancer developing in the CT
catrix that follows the decorations Of
repeated childbirth.
A more recent theory Is that cancer
= Y to some unrecognized parasite.
either q germ or q plasmodium of high
Or order. and that the disease Is infec-
tl0us. The emily evidence ~favOring this
View however, is q mass Of interesting
but. lnconclusive statistics tending to
prove that certain houses have har-
thnVAA- M attn~ Z, -.----
zion OF cancer patients during a period
q years. n that certain communi-
des OF areas of population show an alb
normally high prevalence Of cancer. DR.
Roswell Park, director of the New
York Cancer laboratory at Buffalo.
mapped Y g narrow district extend
ing through Weatern New York. North
orn Ohio and contiguous territory in
which cancer prevailed more than any
where else In A~merica-the Cancer
But all the theories are pitifully In
adequate to account for the alarming
increase OF h disease. The effort OF
therefore. IL to, disseminate among the
Sntire lafty such knowledge as we have
to point out the only known means
q cure.
The treatment Of cancer Is by ma
means 70 hopeless AZ the premises
Mo0lqs 9 to indicate. Notwithstand-
8 Nj ignorance Of the cause. and de-
eplee the pesalmistic utterAncee of the
toerner type Of family doctor (who
1Qtonse DUther to make unpleasant ex-
pminaetona TOR trivial complaints). &
I snlee the blatant motkery Of the inhu-
J numan eharke who declxre IN aarinK
1.-the truth g this: CANCER IS
csrsbIs u Taken Ia Time.
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