The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-06-10
CANCER NOT FATAL
Meeting For Study Of Disease Held
at Rutland.

Meeting For STUDY CT disease Heio
at Rutland.
Rutland, June 9-Concluding day
of expert exposition of the nature
and peril of the great cancer scourge.
which included a clinic of 20 patients,
consultations on seven and operat-
ions on four in the morning and a
scientific lecture to doctors in the af-
ternoon, Or. William Seaman Balm
bridge of the New York Polyclinic
medical school set forth last night 21
articles of faith, which, according to
his immense experience, constitute
the main facts about the disease as it
is known to science.
The facts as set forth by him are
substantially as follows
Pending more study of cancer, as
transmitted from parent to child, or
existent at birth. no special alarm
need be felt
CONSCIOUSNESS or righteousness
of cancer, not proved, general public
may disregard
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from man to man is so rare as to be
negligible;
Contact with sufferers need only
be under same precautions as in case
of any ulcer or open septic wound !;
Infinitely less danger of acquiring
cancer from contact than of septic in
lection or blood poisoning;
Attention to diet, exercise and hy-
gienic surroundings important;
Cancer practically local disease
in the beginning;
When removed in earlier stages,
chances overwhelmingly against a re-
turn of the disease;
In advanced stages. suffering may
be relieved and life prolonged by sur
gerry and other means;
Surgery the surest present means
of cure.
Great advance in surgical proceed
ure for cancer
Cancer may be largely prevented
by removing local predisposing condi-
tions;
Working in pitch. tar. parafIin,
analin, SCOT or with X-rays are likely
to produce chrome irritation and may
result in cancer if not carefully safe
guarded;
Prominent predisposing factors are
lowered nutrition, chronic irritation
and inflammation, repeated injury
scar-tissue, burns, tumors. warts,
moles, birth-marks. etc, any OF
which may lead to cancer if neglect.
ed
Cancer evidently increasing, but
not so fast as to cause present
alarm;
Suggestions regarding eugenics, di-
et etcs for limiting cancer at pres
ent Of no particular value and should
not be followed until endorsed by
consensus of expert opinion;
No necessity for shame or conceal
ment in cases OF cancer: 81
No necessity forI assuming the
presence of cancer, but all desirous
of avoiding it should submit to regu-
ldr eNalh nation Dy family physiciani
Normal and moderate life recon
mended;
Any abnormal condition should be
submitted at once to competent med
ical attention;
Watchwords; Aertness without an
prehension, hope without neglect
early and efficient examination where
there is doubt. early and efficient
treatment where the doubt has been
determined
These are Bainbridge's partir {
words to the doctors and public OF
Rutland and vicinity. and condensed
above is the essence of his expert.
enoe as surgeon for the New York
Skin and Cancer hospital where
thousands of cases have come under
his observation
Il come to tell the bad news" said
DR.. G, +. Dalton, secretary OF the
state board of health, at Yesterdays
afternoon lectures in the Shrine as