Evening star., 1923-09-02
FAST LIVING HELD
CAUSE OF CANCER
New York Doctor Thinks Diet
and Exercise Can Les
sen MaIady.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

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NEW YORK. September 1.-Fast
living-not necessarily riotous, but
the sort that provides a nerve strain
SELF indulgence in eating and
drinking and plain laziness are re-
sponsible for the alarming increase in
cancer In America, according to DR.
Il. Duncan Bulkley, for fifty years a
student of the disease and recog-
nized as one of the foremost au-
thorities in the country.
In view of the MALIGNANT dissa ca,s
INVASION a, OF the worlds high places
curing the past year-with esnecial
reference to the death of Princess
AnaStasia In London this week and
the retirement from the premiership
on Great Britain of Andrew Bonar
Law-Dr. Bulkley is urging thai tba
only real solution of the cancar
psooIem lies In change of the mode
or living and the diet. ''''ue
Freedom OF Aborfsines,
ANY number of observers in MANY
,, ,ai,us, DE- Bulkley said today. have
rec lsscorded the almost entire absence
.,in,ni, among aborisines living
Silhple. largely vegetarian lives. TheV
rave also SHOWN the definite Increase
IN mortality from cancer among
tnese IN proportion to the adoption
ny natives OF the customs and diet
of foreigners.
The increase in cancer mortality
seems to depend largely uDon the
aiiied conditions of life attending
niouein clVlliZation, particularly along
lhe lines OF self-indulgence in eating
snSo, :,,,d ,urilihing' together with physical
Statistics from many countries
snow that a per capita increase In
ne consumption OF meat. coffee and
iS. ..iGoiioulc beverages appears to coin
augmentation in the mortality from
cancer
Ciinicical observation has time
ana again shown the specific effect
OF nerve strain and shock on the de-
Velopment of cancer There seems
10 be little question but that the
enormous nerve strain of modern life
has much to do with its increa sed
prevalence and mortality"
Puts Ban on Knife.
DR.. Bulkley's observations have
been arrived at through his cases at
the New York Skin and Cancer Hos
pital, which he founded Through il
ualiy pass scores of persons of the
city suffering from the malignant
disease So we'll rooted is his belief
that surgery which calls for opera
,ions Tor the removal of infected por-
tionS, S-ray and radium treatments
not only are ineffective, but aggravate
the disease, that he has installed a
system of dieting that calls strictly
for vegetable foods. Meat is banned
Exercise is requisite and the proper
medicines are also a basis of his
treatment.
In substantiation of the point that
past methods have proved ineffective
he points to the medical statistics. In
the period from 1912 to 1916 8S out of
every 100000 persons in the United
States died of the disease: in the
five years from 1917 to 1921, inclu-
sive, the death rate was 97.1 persons
to every 100000. The past year has
reache ed the high rate of 104 persons
in America for 1922 was more than
100000 persons. The figure is mount
ing rapidly.
100000 in u, s.
Medical estimates have it that at
least 100, 900 cases develop annually
and that upon the basis that the life
of the disease is three years. there
are now 800. 900 cases in America.
Albany, y. Y. leads the nation in
death rate. with a mortality of 1929
ton: San Francisco is second, with
1918: Boston is third. with 1853:
Sacramento is fourth. with 141.S. and
Providence is fifth, with mortality
of 1867 persons out of 100000 popu-
lation. Norfolk, Va. has the lowest
cancer death rate in the country, and
Detroit has the next lowest.
In spite of its advances along the
lines of sanitation and health meas
ures. America is leading the world
in the prevalence of the disease.