The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-15
OVERLOOK CANCER SYMPTOMS
Would Be Fewer Deaths if People
Recognized the Disease.

Cancer mortality figures would be
relocated to the scrap heap if the
knowledge of its symptoms was sys-
tematically made public and all classes
of people knew how to recognize the
disease and understood what to do
about it. This was the gist of DIR.
John Babst Blake s address yesterday
afternoon at the Women s Municipal
league, Marlboro street, says the
Boston Post.
DR.. Blake and DR.. Edward II. Mich
OILS, both speaking under the auspices
of the American Medical association
dwelt on the prevalence of the disease.
its symptoms and how to catch it be-
fore it spreads in the human system.
/ DR.. Nichols dealt with the laboratory
side of the subject.
Within five years, If what is COM
mon knowledge among doctors or the
subject of cancer declared DIR. Blake,
twas known generally by the public,
the cancer mortality figures would be
cut down rs per cent.
cit is absolutely true that cancer
is a more dangerous condition. It's NOR
tally is second to that of tuberculo-
sis. But if the available knowledge
of its symptoms and the methods Of
curing it was spread broadcast, VIC
would see remarkable shrinkage anG
ldwindling of the number of fatal eases
of cancer inside very short time.
cit would not be hard to pronhesy
the eradication of the fatality OF this
disease, with everybody having dc i
mite knowledge of what to regard with
suspicion as symptoms. Catch the ease
+ when it is young and a strictly loea
! matter, and it is a simple operation
to remove it entirely.
"The symptoms of cancer are apt t.
be overlooked as common and of NJ
significance, When a man has paset
40 years of age there are a number o
things which should be regarded will
suspicion on his body.
ga mole on the skin which suddenl,
: begins to change shape or color, a war
which begins to grow again, the ap
pearance of a bumpy growth which per
sists in remaining after four or 81.
3 weeks, or a cut which fails to heal III
in 10 days, these things must be regard
z ed with suspicion after a man or VIC
d man is 80 or 40 years old.
GA great obstacle in the eradicatio
l. of the disease is the firm conviction j
l. the public mind that cancer mean
D. death Cancer is absolutely curs
BILE when it is purely local and has n
? roots out-by the removal of it. II
Is variably eradication of cancer by tn
IT knife, if the operation is performe
d when the case is young and loca
y means 'cure to stay cured
is " At present in the death rate of pc
n pie over 40 years of age, one death OF
of ! is due to cancer. In the case {
women. one out of every eight at oy,
40 years, is due to cancer. With me
over 40, it is one out of every 1t.
DR.. Nichols, in speaking on the la
90, oratory side of the disease, said in pa
that not until it is known what life
viii men ever learn what cancer
o. Dr. Nichols pointed out that in Il
nj case of women, cancer of the brea
O. and other parts was very rap
Il. growth. and should be attended to il
a mediately. One month was almost I
a long a time to watch the case witho
operating.
~ The X-ray was advocated as q Gu
I'm only in such cases where the cane
nd was strictly surface, skin disea
a and situated in such a place that t
knife would disfgure and MAIN, su
a place being the eyelid.