The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1922-11-17
DIR. NJ. P. NEAL
TELLS WOMEN
ABOUTCANCER
NJ. U. Professor Explains Cause,
Prevention and Cure of
the Disease to WOm-
ems Clubs.
10000 DEATHS ANNUALLY
Cancer Is Not Contagious or
Hereditary-The Tendon
cy Only Can Be Trans
mitted.

Cancer Week is set aside" said DR..
VI. Z. Neal in his talk on Cancer" be-
fore the women's clubs this week, 'as a
means Of educating the public to the
early signs and manifestations Of cancer
and to bring 10 il a message that cancer
10 4 certain extent is a preventable dis
ease and even after it once becomes evil
dent is durable disease. The program
Of Cancer Week is not TO excite unneces-
sarily individuals TO the fear and dread
OF cancer, but is largely TO prevent the
idea of hopelessness which is almost uni
Ncrsal when the term cancer is expressed.
There is no disease which affects man.
kind and which aroused so great dread in
It's several forms.
As a rule the disease has made such
progress before a diagnosis is made
that medical science can do little for
relief of the patient. But if taken early.
cures are made in a large per cent of
cases and in any event the tumor NAV
be arrested or life often greatly pro-
lonGed even by treatment in late cases.
Cancer is a new formation of tissue
or new growth of tissue which has arisen
from former pre-eXisting normal cells
al the body that are now growing in a
wild. irregular. bolshevistic manner
without law. rule or order. Ii performs
no useful function to the organ tissue or
body. That is. the cancer cell or unit
is not an offspring of cell or type of
cells which are normal and always found
in the living body. Due to some un-
usual stimulation or removal of inhibi-
iion. these cells begin a wild, lawless
growth. invading and destroying tissues
and organs and unless they are removed
will eventually cause death.
1t now causes at least 10000 deaths
a year in the United States. 1t is chief
ly disease of adult life. Among people
Of the United States over 40 wears of
age. cancer causes one death in every
ten, about one in eight among women
and one in fourteen among men. The
ages above the 80 to 40 years period are
affected by cancer sixty-six times as
much as those below these ages. Age
must consequently be Of the greatest i'm.
portance for the development Of the
cancer.
As 10 cause and origin, research has
been busy for many wears and in many
cases has seemed TO be on the eve of
solving the mystery. But our present
knowledge is largely made I'D of neg
alive evidence which is slowly narrowing
the field of causes.
Many irritants appear to produce can
Ger as the following examples will show:
hashmIr cancer, seen among the Hndus
who carry hot charcoal stoves around
with them resting on their abdomens.
AT the site at which the stoves resi-
cancer develops among a large number
OF these individuals. These same people
who chew betel nuts have high rate /
OF mouth cancers. Pipe smokers can.
Ger Is due TO irritation, pressure and
burns OF the pipe stem on the lower lin.
Esophagea cancer among Chinese men
Is from eating hot rice; not observed
among women who eat rice cold at
second table.
Nagging, repeated or constant irri.
ia'ion of body cells by injury. dyes. |
chemicals, x-ray, heat, unhealed ulcers. |
burning irritating discharges and large