The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-11-17
CONTROL oF CANCER

This Society for the National Con.
troll of Cancer, an organized formed
by the leading physicians and notet
lay people of the country for thu
control of cancer in America. This
society has been in existence for only
a number of years, but have and are
disseminating a vast knowledge of
the early signs and symptoms Of that
dreaded disease, cancer, and are put
ting the public on their guard as to
the right and wrong means of treat
men,.
When it is realized that one death
in eight, after forty, is caused by can
Ger, and that we lost in America more
lives from cancer in the year 1918
than there were American soldiers
killed in battle in the World War, the
necessity for some such step is very
obvious. 1t is well known that the
National campaigns directed against
tuberculosis, typhoid, typhus fever
small pox and diphtheria are meeting
with most gratifying success; there
fore it becomes very evident that
some such campaign will be the only
means of Graduating cancer.
Cancer is not a separate and dis
tince disease or entity, as is typhoid,
malaria or other acute febrile diseas-
es, but is growth which becomes a
part of the body. We must, there
fore, learn to recognize this growth
in our bodies so early that a complete
removal is possible before particles
of this growth become detached from
the mother growth and scatter
throughout the body, forming other
growths. People, after thirty-five or
forty, should learn to consult a con-
scientious and intelligent physician if
they have persistent alterations,
Jumps in the skin or about the soft
tissues Of the body, irregular or alb
normal discharges, persistent indi-
getion, assures about the mouth and
lips which persist, or any other alb
normal tumor, growth or disturbed
function; for it is only by the early
recognition that treatment can offer
a complete cure. This diagnosis is
established only by thorough exam
ination in the hands of people accus-
toned to know cancer cells with the
This society, the American Society
for the Control of Cancer, wishes to
emphasize particularly the right and
wrong way of arriving at conclu-
sion as to the best means of diagno-
sis and treatment. The so-called can
GER doctor treats all tumors or patho-
logical conditions with either an in
ert medicine, or else a caustic salve,
which is prepared at very little ex-
pense and sold at an enormous price.
They treat allied generous growths,
benign or ron-cancerous growths, and
cancerous growths which are beyond
any operative treatment, assuring a
complete cure for all. Medicines are
also given internally for the removal
of these malignant conditions-they
are either inert, or else have no in
fiuence on the growth of the cancer
Gus cell. These treatments, given by
the so-called cancer doctor, do not re-
lieve the cancer land do no good to
the other conditions, which would in
all probability heal of their own ac-
cord), but fatten the pocketbook OF
the INSCRIPTIONS man who guarantees
cure, while in true cancer the
chance that the patient had of cure
by early operative procedure, and X
ray and radium treatment, has been
taken from the patient and he newt