The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-23
PLAN "NATI0NAL
 CANCER" WEEK

GANGER" WEEK
 New York. Sept 2s.-The Ameri- can Society for the Control of Can cer, which since it's organization in 1913, has been fighting cancer with facts,' sent out from its headquar- ters No. 25 West 45th street, New York, announced yesterday an unus- ual feature of its already remarkable campaign.
 This is a National Cancer Week" which will begin October 30 and end November 5.
 The purpose of the effort, the most comprehensive and important in the soc1ety's career, is intended to carry facts concerning cancer to as many persons in the United States and Canada as. can be reached, through the professional and lay press. by lec- l tures and by the spread of informa tive literature The work will be carried on by the foremost physicians and surgeons in the country who spe- ciaiize in the control of this dread dis ease; by state and city health officers and by the public spirited citizens who have given much of their time ! and considerable of their money to | the movement.
 The society's organization is an ex- | cepdonally efficient one and the mes sage of 'Fancer Week. will be car ried to the remotest corners of the country. It includes regional direc- tors. state chairmen and local com mittees all working under the direc- tion of Dr. Charles A. Powers, presi- dent Assisting Dr. Powers are such men of note as Dr. Robert Abbe, one of the foremost authorities on can- cer in America; Dr. James Ewing G. F. Armstrong, of Montreal, noted Canadian surgeon: Dr. Joseph c. Bloodgood. of Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, BalticlNre; Dr. William J. Mayo, Of ROchcsA1 Mjnn Dr Clement Cleveland, for many years head of the Women'S Hospital in New York; Dr. Francis Carter Wood. director of the Crocker Cancer Research Labora.t ory, Columbia University and head of the Board of Scientists which aided American women to buy a gram of radium for Mme. Marie Curie; Dr. Livingston F'arrand, president of Cor nell University; Dr.Herman M. Biggs, health commissioner of New York state; Dr. Harvey R. Gaylord, of Buff Institute for the Study Of Malignant Disease; Dr. Robert G. Greenoush. of Boston, director of the Harvard Can cer Commission, and Dr. George E. Vincent, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Drs. Armstrong. Cleve- land and Farrand are among the vice presidents of the society.
 Among others who arc giving a movement are Mrs. Robert G. Mead. chairman of the socfety's finance committee and secretary of the Marie Curie radium fund committee; Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan. Thomas w. Lamont V. Everit Macy Mrs. Fred erick F. Thompson and Jar7es Spev- CT, of New York: Mrs. Georre F. Shaw, of Pit-sh,.reh. and Frederick latter is statistician of the Pruden- tial Life Insurance Co.. and chairman of the soc:ety's committee on statis- tics.
 Since f.e inception the societv has maintained that aco-1r7te inforrna ton concerning cance- is the hest me ns known to lowe- the mortality of this | disease. It believed. and it has since | been proved. thet large number of | cases can oe o17-o1 if taken i, hand | early a-d as e~"orts have been dI- | rected toward r-ein~ peroons to seek l competent advice tho instant thev | pain by the societv's campaign of | efuoatfon. r, this -cliov tho =~c'otv at first met a1+a~o7is-|1 from that ele- l rnent which c1-7e'Se~ed cancer d'e-
 E-ace ara whio'' believe the less said
 about 1t the better.
 r1over7 aut gre extremely encoura ged
 by the fact that during the past three
 years deaths from career have. fol
 the first time iH two decad showr
 a slight decrease. It does not clain
 that all this decrease is due to it campaign, bus it believes that f;
 campaign has had something to d'
 with 1t and 1t intends to push it
 work in the future ever more vfgor ously than in the past.
 Some idea of the ravases of can ce
 may be had from the fact that I
 causes ten out of every hundred deaths in this country where the vic , tins are more than 40 years old: tha
 about S5.0o0 deaths a year are re corded and that the mortality among
 women is considerably greater thai , among men. Womcn are exception
 ally susceptible to thls disease. bu it is gratifying to know that if tn
 majority of casea may be cured. Be
 causs people are better Informed
 early diagnoses arc more common
 than in the past, and moreover tn methods of treatment, which now In cluda radiun and the X-ray are be , coming more and more efficient ant f effective.
 5 During ''National Cancer Week ? | there will bo lectures in New Tor, ,. and other cities by the foremost au f thorities on cancer. tho distributio
 of literature at those lectures. activi
 ties ty tnc departments of healt
 throughout tllo country and by tn
 medical soc:et.es, and the publicetio 8 of numerous articles in the rnediof - and lay press. Nurses organization 3 insurance compdEte7. Federations ( @ Wornen's clubs. Social Service orgar n isatioas. Chambers of Commerce an n Merchants assacintiops. Labor UT
 ions and Trade Councils will tak
 part. gTns Y W. c. A.. the Y. M. l. A. and scores ef othsr organization
 will give their aid. The meetin