The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-21
DR.. LAMAR REQUESTED
TO LECTURE ON CANCER
WILL ADDRESS LOCAL OR
GANIZATION ON DISEASE,
WHICH TAKES BIG TOLL.

DR.. Lamar has received a request
from Dr. J. /. Campbell, chairman OF
the cancer commission OF the Medical
Association OF Georgia, under arrange
ment with the American Society tor
the Control OF Cancer, with head
quarters in New York, requesting that
he give a lecture to some OF the civic
organizations and women's clubs OF
the county on the cause and the con-
troll OF cancer. DR.. Lamar will COM
plv with the request and the organl-
cations he will address and the place
and time will be announced later.
This disease now claims more VIC
Tins every year in the United States
than any other save tuberculosis, heart
disease and kidney disease.
A distressing fact about the situa-
ton is that the cancer death rate IS
steadily rising in all civilized lands. In
1000 it was only % per 1000 popula-
ton in the registration area OF the
United States. Ten years later it had
amounted to 1872. In 1920, the latest
wear for which statistics are available,
it was 1874. In England no other dis
ease slays so many as does cancer In
two years 10000 people died OF can
Ger in the United States.
A large percentage OF the deaths
from cancer every year could be pre-
vented if the public knew about this
disease. Here are twelve known can
Ger facts that were gathered by DR.,
Campbell:
/. If an early cancer is completely
removed it will not return.
,. There is a time when every can
Ger can be cured for it exists in what
is known to scientific men as pre-
cancer"
5. Cancer is first a lump or sore
that can be felt with the fingers or
seen with the eye" or gives certain
definite warnings. If we knew how to
interpret these warnings cancer could
be cured.
4. Nine cases out OF ten do not
cause pain in the early stages. This
is unfortunate.
5. Cancer starts as the result OF
long continued irritation If irritation
is removed cancer will not develop.
O. Cancer develops at the edge OF
a scar-where the scar and normal
tissue meet. If the scar is removed
the cancer will not develop.
I. Certain definite symptoms pre-
cede every cancer, just as surely as
wind clouds precede the rain storm.
The time is coming when these synp-
toms will be needed.
s. One hundred thousand people IN
the United States are annually al
flicted with some form of cancer. This
is on the authority OF the public health
service.
9. One woman in every eight, who
is over forty years of age, dies of can
GER. Three times as many women as
men die with cancer between thirty
five and forty-hve years of age. From
that time on the ratio is more nearly
equal.
10. Every person over thirty-hve
years OF age who is not sure about a
lump, sore or unnatural discharge
should consult competent physician
and demand a thorough examination.
If the first doctor consulted cannot
give a rational opinion ask for a con-
sultation.
II. Procrastination has caused the
loss of many valuable lives.
r. Any doctor who tells you that
he has a sure cure for cancer is a
fraud. There is no such a thing as a
cancer serum or any remedy that will
cure cancer by being injected into the
veins or rubbed on the skin.