The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-03-03
MEDICAL men WEsII
T0iC'llJAINT PUBLIC
W!THC NICER FACTS

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elusive. Dr.. Louis Fligman of Hell.
ena, President of the State Board OF
Health, is chairman for Montana
This Cancer Campaign is being car
ried on under the auspices of the Am
erican Society for the Control of Can
GER of New York City. The object OF
the Cancer Week is to acquaint the lay
public with the latest facts concerning
cancer. The statement given below
was drafted last fall by cancer experts
at the international Meeting for Can
Ger Contro' This statement reflects
our present knowledge concerning the
cause, prevention and cure of cancer
While this may seem meager as COM
pared to our knowledge of diphtheria
yet there is every reason to be hope
full that cancer problems may be solv-
ed within a few years
Statement of the Facts and Opinions
Agreed to by the International
Meeting of Cancer Control Held at
Lake Mohonh. n. T., L. S. A..
September 20-24, 1926.
Although the present state of know.
ledge of cancer is not sufficient to per
nit of the formulation of such
procedures for the suppression of this
malady as have been successfully en-
ployed for the control of infectious
diseases, there is enough we'll estab-
lished fact and sound working opinion
concerning the prevention, diagnosis
and treatment of cancer to save many
lives, if this information is carried
properly into effect.
|. The causation of cancer is not
completely understood, but it may be
accepted that for all practical purpos-
es cancer is not to be looked upon as
contagious or infectious.
3. Cancer itself is not hereditary
although a certain predisposition OF
susceptibility to cancer is apparently
transmissible through inheritance
This does not signify that, because
ones parent or parents or other mem
bers of the family have suffered from
cancer, cancer will necessarily appear
IN other persons of the same or sue
ceeding generation.
8. The control of cancer, so far as
this subject can be understood at the
present time depends upon the en-
ployment of measures of personal by,
giene and certain preventative and
curative measures, the success o.
which depends upon the intelligent co
operation of the patient and physician
A. Persons who have cancer mus
apply to competent physicians at {
sufficiently early stage in the disease
in order to have a fair chance O.
cure. This applies to all forms o
cancer. In some forms early treat
ments accords the only possibility o
cure.
5. Cancer in some parts of the bod,
can be discovered in very earl.
stage, and if these cases are treate,
properly the prospect for permanen
cure is good.
6. The cure of cancer depends upo
discovering the growth before it he
done irreparable injury to vital par
| of the body and before it has sprea
should be made to improve the meth
DDS of diagnosis in these various loca
tions and the treatment of the car
GERS so discovered.
7. The public must be taught tn
earliest danger signals of cancer whic
can be recognized by persons withou
special knowledge Of the subjec
and induced to seek competent medic;
attention when any of these indlcs
lions are believed TO be present.
s. Practitioners of medicine mus
keep abreast of the latest advances
the knowledge of cancer in order t
d;arpoca &c manu- as uossihIe of Eli
cases of cancer which come to then
u 9. Surgeons and radiologists mus
make constant progress in the refine
methods of technic which are neces
sary for the diagnosis and prope
treatment not only of ordinary case
but of the more obscure and difficu
ones.
10. There is much that medical me
can do in the prevention of cancer,
; the detection of early cases, in the RI
ferring of patients to institutions az
physicians who can make the propt
diagnosis and apply proper treatmen
when the physicians themselves Al
unable to accomplish these result
The more efficient the family doctt
, is, the more ready he is to share +
5 sponsibility with a specialist.
y II. Dentists can help in the contr
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