The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-05

of cases can be cured with radiurn and in the meantime the Society for the Control of Cancer warns the public that early surgical treatment affords the best chance for cure Of cancer. While the results of radIum rnust be taken into consideration, at the samS time the men who have reported tho best results are still urging early oper- ation whenever possible.
 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR
 THE CONTROL OF CANCERi
 To meet the need of a. definite gpe- cial agency to fight the battle Of so-' cfety against this disease, the Amer1- can Society for the Control of CanceFI has been formed. Patterned nezvhaEi after the National Association for thsi Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis s yet recognizing an entirely different 4 problem and planning different meth-a ods, the new organization aims to es- tabltsh a clearing house of information on cancer, and to become the channel through which authoritative @tate-S ments, based on the study of na@dicaIs and statistical records, will be made torf the public from time to time.
 The society has been launched byi men of the highest standing in ths medical profession, including Dr. Cem-t ent Cleveland of New York, pr. LsWf1 M. McMurtrie of Louisville, pr. A D. Bevin of Chicago, Dr. Joseph c. B1oOd-1 good of Baltimore, Dr. Edward Rsy- holds of Boston, Dr. Edward Martin, of Philadelphia, pr. F. F. Simpson oG Pittsburgh, Dr. c. Jen Miller of New Orleans, Dr. Charles Powers of Den yer, Dr. F. R. Greene, secretary Of the American Medical Association, and pr. Livingston Farrand, executive sec- retary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tubercu- 1osis. Frederick L. Hoffman and Sam ueI Hopkins Adams, who have done .a--g-- knowledge, are members Of the exec uttve committee as are also such leaders in the world of affa1us a8 George C.. Clark. James Speyer, New York banker, and v. Everit Macy who Is identified with several of the great movements for social advance. The movement started in a committee ap-f pointed by the American Genealogical Society The organization 7Vas ap-s pr0ved by the other constituent bOdfs8 Of the Congress of American Physi- clans and Surgeons, and by the Amer tcan Medical Association. Further gtfm- u1us has come from the Clinical Con gress of Surgeons of North America at its recent meeting in Chicago
 METHODS OF WORK.
 One of the first objects will be to ob- tain the keeping of systematic and unf- form records of cancer cases in hos pftaIs and dfspensarfes to provide tho 
 deductions as to the value of surgical treatment in different manifestations and stages of the disease. When by this method and by the collection and study of statistics from all available sources new light is thrown on the cancer question, the findings will be spread abroad through all available channels. The society will endeavOr to obtain the cooperation of maga- zines and the daily press and will fur ther the organization of lecture courses . in womenis clubs, factories and wher- ever opportunity offers. Local braueii associations will probably be formed, and all available agencies utilized to spread authoritative information on the subject of cancer to every city and village in the country. The new asso- citation will not undertake medical re- search upon the work of any existing agency, but will devote all its energy to the dissemination of information provided by the multitude of present workers in the field.