Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-07-28
DR.. hBELL Tells
STUDENTS OF CANCER
States 1t Is Local AT First, Not
Hereditary, Nor Blood
Disease

LII. 1IVlllt ADCIl,, NitiilIClll oul
eeon of Louisville, delivered a
T! lecture on cancer to the stu
dents of Eastern Kentucky
State Normal School and a few
invited guests Thursday after
noon at 2 o'clock in the Normal
chapel. On account of the small
auditorium the public could not
be invited. The room was filled
to capacity with students and
guests.
DR.. Abel was here in the in
| terest of securing cooperation of
the public in lowering the NOR
! ta1ity from this disease. DIR.
Abel is simple, attractive
speaker and presented his sub
iect so all could understand and
! profit by it. He stated that he
believed his profession second
only to the ministry. Medical
men everywhere now are pro-
noting educational campaigns,
making discoveries and in fact
! doing every thing possible to
prevent disease, prevent the
spread of disease and lessen the
number Of epidemics thruout the
country. They are doing all
! this even tho it means pecunlary
loss to the profession. This
preventative treatment has
brought great results. For in
! stance with in the last IS years
great efforts have been made to
decrease the mortality from T.
B. with a 29.8 per cent decrease
as the result. This means that
! from $4,000 to $4,000 lives are
saved yearly.
! With cancer there has been
a great increase since 1900
, This may be due to the fact that
records are being kept now as
never before. Eighty-five in
every 1000 population die OF
cancer in this yearly. A ma
tional society has been formed
to prevent the spread of cancer
This organization hopes to de-
crease cancer mortality thru edu-
cation. 1t intends to act as a
clearing house of knowledge
about cancer and to send infor-
nation to every county in the
country. 1t will also supply indl-
viduals who will write to head
quarters in Washington.
After giving this preliminary
information DR.. Abel stated that
cancer was a very old disease
A good description was gEer
of cancer by Egyptians in $40 B
c. and mention was made Of
performing cancer operations
! In $50 B. C. mention was made
of treating cancer with a hot
iron. The principle of this
method is employed today.
Great progress has been made
in the stndy of this disease since
1900 by the aid of the micro,
scope.
! Actual knowledge about the
distribution of cancer has beer
furnished by the Bureau of Vita
Statistics which shows that II
| 1920 10000 died of cancer IN tht
territory covered by this Bureau
From this it is estimated tina
there were in that year lOO,OC'
deaths caused by cancer IN thl
country. Aolarge per cent o
these were sacrahces which Wer'
absolutely unnecessary resulting
from no other cause than lack o
knowledge. Records show tha
about $4,000 of the total death
caused by cancer in 1920 wer
white people and 1900 were ne
eros. DR.. Abell stated tha
, primitive people were not a
susceptible to many diseases a
the morely highly sensitlzed an
and civilized people. Negros ar
not as susceptible to infection
as are white people. With whit
people men are more susceptible
j., to cancer of the mouth than ar
. women. There are few sue
! cases of cancer amoung womer
. | Cancers of the breast are y
, among women to one anon
men. The stomach is the mos
egected organ of the body b
{ cancer and is about equally dl
2 vided among both sexes.
', DIR. Abel stated that he mean
lwhen he mentioned cancer, an
II form of malignant tumor an
ii that a tumor growth possessln
no function. A malignant turno
envolves all in OTIS way and ina
ly destroys life.
DIR. Abel said that cancers Us
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