Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-11-04
A MESSAGE TO ALL
 CANCER SUFFERERS

Dr. w. w. Keen, one of the best known and successful surgeons of the country is offering message of hope to cancer sufferers. He says in part
 During an active surgical life of all most half century, I have seen many hundreds of cases of cancer and I am happy to assure my readers that it is curable, provided the advice of those who have been in constant contact with this terrible disease is sought and followed".
 The deaths from cancer are contin- ually increasing, and have reached a most alarming total. In the World War, from April, 1917, to July, 1919, 76,433 of our gallant soldiers lost their lives by wounds and disease. In the same length of time, about 1SO,OO0 of our population died from cancer over 100000 more than the total mili- tary deaths! Of our total annual deaths of persons over forty years of age, one person in every ten dies of cancer. Of all deaths among women over forty, one out of every eight is caused by cancer. Do not these fig ures startle you, my reader? Is it not all-important that you should rec ognize the red flag of danger, when you discover the first recognizable sign of possible cancen-A Hump" anywhere, or an abnormal discharge of blood? ...
 What is the cause of cancer?" you ask; "and why aren't you busy find ing it?" I answer that no one prob- lem of disease is being attacked as is the cause of cancer. If we find the cause, we will be at the halfway house on the road to prevention or cure. E'.
 There are special laboratories of re- search on cancer alone in Boston, New York City, Buffalo, London, Paris, Heidelberg, and other cities, and also not a few personal Investigators in other places, all laboring to discover the cause, and how to prevent cancer and thus avoid the dreadful alterna- tive of a surgical operation.
 The problem has been attacked from the surgical, the pathological, the miscroscopical, the chemical, the biological, and the experimental side. We have learned great deal; for in- stance, that cancer is always strict ly local disease at the beginning, so that, if you remove this small lump. early enough, cure is almost certain. If you wait, the disease spreads by the absorbent vessels and the blood vessels to the neighboring glands (under the jaw, in the armpit or the groin, or in internal glands) or to dis tant parts, and then the case is hope less for cure. All we can do is pal Hate. Early operation before the disease has thus spread is the sine qua non for success. |
 The X-rays and radium are being very extensively experimented with, and most hopefully in certain forms of cancer. It is with this view that the fine women of America presented Madame Curie with one gram (15 grains) of radium, costing one hun dred thousand dollars. I have per sonally known of some remarkable cures by the X-rays and radium. But they should be used only by experts, or they may do irreparable damage. Even if they do no damage, in case they do not cure, their use not seldom delays operation until it is too late. , We have also learned by these lab oratories of research that this, that, and the other line of research is not the true road to the discovery of the cause. Thus, by exclusion, we are gradually limiting our researches to the methods which give promise of possible success. l
 l feel as certain of our ultimate success as do of my own existence. am expectant, hopeful, and inn patient for that glorious day to come. It will most likely come like thief n hn f1