Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1914-07-08
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CANCER
IN the Early Treatment Of Cancer Lies the
Hone Of Cure.

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Hope Of Cure.
Gamer is almost invaribly q
first q local disease.
It is easily cured if promptl,
recognized and Of once removed
by competent treatment.
Il is practically always incur
able in it's later stage.
The disease usually begins q
some unhealthy spot or some point
of local irritation.
In external cancer there is some
thing to be seen or felt, such 40 9
wart, a mole, a lump or scab, o,
an unhealed wound or sore. Pain
is rarely present.
Cancer inside the body is often
recognized by symptoms before a
lump can be seen or felt. Pre-.
sistent indigestion, with loss of
weight and change of color, is al.
ways especially suspicious.
Persistent abnormal discharge
from any part of the body should
arouse the suspicion of cancer,
particularly if The discharge is
bloody.
The early snd hopeful stages of
cancer are usually painless.
Fear the beginning of cancer.
Never be afraid to know the
truth.
Any painless lump or sore ap-
psarlng upon your body should be
examined by your phyeioian.
BY the time q cancer has be-
come painful the best chance for
its cure has passed.
But even a painful cancer can
be removed permanently if it has
not extended too far beyond the
place whore it began.
If you notice that q wart, mole
or other ''mark" begins to change
IN appearance or to show signs of
irritation 70 to a physician and
have it completely removed. Do
not wsis until you are sure it is
canceT5us.
All Jumps in the breast should
be eqamined. In women the nor.
NAL change of life does not lead
to increased flowing, which Is al.
ways suspicious, as the return of
flowing after 1t has stopped.
Medicine which relieves pain
does not have any effect upon the
disease itself; it simply produces
g period Of freedom fSendiscom-
fort and therefore delays ths prop
or treatment.
Cancer is of greater frequency
at ages over forty than tubercu.
losis, phneumonia. typhoid fever
or digestive diseases.
At ages over forty, one person
in eleven dies of cancer.
One woman in eight and one
man in fourteen over forty years
of age is attacked by the disease
with fatal results.
Largely because of public ignor.
ance and neglect, cancer now
proves fatal in over 80 per cent.
of the attacks.
OF the rs, 900 deaths from this
disease in the United States in
1913, about $4,000 were deaths
from cancer of the stomach aud
liver, 12, 900 from cancer of the
uterus and other organs of gener.
alton, $500 from cancer Of the
breast and about 25, 500 from can.
Ger of other organs and parts.
Cancer respects neither race,
creed nor social position.
1t is the common enemy of all
mankind, attacking rich and poor
alike.
Its insidious onset OCCURS at the
most useful period of life; and
death is most common at the age
when che care and guidance of
children and the continuance of
business responsibilities make the
mother and father the most use
full members of society.
The only cure for cancer is t.
remove every vistage of the dis.
ease.
The only sure way to do this is
by surgical operation.
If taken at the beginning, the
majority of cases of cancer are
durable.
All cases will end in death if
let alone.
Records of our best hospitals
prove that the chances of cure are
very high with early operotion,
and that these chances decrease
with every day of delay.
Early diagnosis is therefore oil
important.-By the American