The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-12-24
CANCER OF THE BREAST.
Each Year 1000 Women Die From
That Disease.

Seven thousand women die from can
Ger Of the breast each year in the United
States, according to the estimate of thu
American society for the control of can
Ger. According to the United States
census, there were ,43l deaths from this
disease in 1912 in the registration area
which represented at that time a lit
tie over 60 per cent of the population
of the country.
In each of these 1000 cases there was
a time when the disease was cura BILE.
Unfortunately, it is not always discov-
cred in the early stage. But nature
nearly always gives a timely warming.
Alert intelligence and prompt visit to
a good surgeon would save a great pro-
lportion of the women attacked by this
disease.
In little pamphlet called "The Story
OF Mrs. Harrison" the cancer society
has recently told how one wise woman
took the step in time and ayerted the
terrible danger in which she found her
! self. Years later her friends, seeing her
looking so well and happy, envied her
because "she had never been sick day
in her life" 1t will be said that such
cases are exceptional. So they are be
cause, unfortunately, such wise and cour
ageous patients are exceptional. 1t is a
Ipity that information and education
about cancer are not universal. 1t is a
| pity that instead of knowledge that
saves, we see daily evidence OF supersti-
zion that kills. II is pity that sin
lyle precious moment after the discovery
Of symptoms is ever wasted i'm listening
to criminal quaeks who promise cure
without the use of the knife and employ
internal stimulants and external pastes
which are either useless, or in such
hands, dangerous.
a. a result when the sufferer does
finally come to the surgeon she comes
al last resort too often hoping or even
expecting him to accomplish the impossi-
Bile
What are tie signs then, which should
take any woman who discovers them at
once to her family physician or to the
nearest surgeon or large hospitals
Any hump or unnatural hardness in I
any part of the breast or in the arm.
pit or any reddish or brownish dis.
charge from the nipple with or without
soreness should receive instant atten-
tion and should be- brought 70 the notice
Of the family doctor or a competent suE-
geon.
And especially is the painless lump to
be feared for the breast cancer in it,
earlier stages does not compel notice
bv painful sensations
When we speak Of a lump or an unust-
utal hardness il means that cancer of
the breast is not at first accompanied
ly any noticeable change in the size or
shape Of the breast, or in the consisten-
~ 81 the remainder of IL. The disease
sometimes shows itself as a hardening
Vt shrinking Of the breast with indraw-
NJ ~ the nipple. In such cases the
pores 81 the kin over the location Of the
disease later become very pronounced so
hat the appearance i much like that Of
iigskiF. Bat in The beginning there is
20 change noticeable except the lump
Ir hardness II a woman discovers this
ign She should 20 az once to a physj-
ian in whom she can have perfect conf.
cuce tie will determine the necessity FL
or further counsel The patient should
ot handle or irritnte The affected part
tt should DO exactly as the doctor ad-
Uses. No one more earnestly desires
rr 20 D. cured than he.
Now ~ this does not mean that there :
! more danger because some one in the
imilv has suffered from csncrr Nor
"a the other hand. j. one safe lust b..
ause the diseaac never appeared in the
lmlly hctorr.
Tho uuf0unae3 fear ~ cancer viii cause
ANY ~ the symptoms % the disease.
Ike tho haljhradcd mau who caught
IN from sitting under a window which :
2 thought vas omen. q woman has bcen q
nonn % sorry FORTY pounds away On 4
soouut ~ lump u her breast which
moved BY 4 single operation. proved
IL o. r. a cancer ard the forte pounds
tme latk with thr reiirf EMgh follow
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