Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1928-10-19
CAUSE OF CANCER
NOT YET KNOWN,
PHYSICIANS SAY
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curative serum and we know the
cause of diphtheria. There is nc
necessity for any more research.
"The amount of money expended
and the amount of time and energy
devoted by the medical profession
with the aid of the nursing profess
sion, to restore the cripple to some
function, or to cure, or make more
comfortable the patient in the late
stage of cancer is immense, but the
actual results are relatively small.
1--WE know the cause of lockJaw
and of diphtheria, and we have for
diphtheria, both, the preventive ana
curative serum. We have for lock-
Jaw a preventive serum and a cura-
tive rum which is partially success
full.
For a preventive and curative SER
UNI for infantile paralysis there
must be more research, and this re-
uuires a great deal of money.
Surgical Treatment
"The surgical treatment for can
Ger is less than forty years old, and
il was perfected more than twenty
five wears ago. If the cancer is still
a local disease and it is completely
removed, many cures are accom-
plished. But the ignorant and unin-
formed individual pays little or no
attention to the early stages of can
Ger. They look upon it's beginning
as the average mother does upon a
slight illness in a child, and they
awaken to the realities of the sever
ity of the trouble when the cancer
is in the late stages, just as the par
ent is overcome with anxiety when
she suddenly finds that her slightly
ill child is unable to move an arm or
leg.
To Educate People
1.-THE organization of this commit
tee in the State of Delaware repre-
senting the American Society for the
Control of Cancer, has for its chief
purpose the education of every ind1-
vidual in your State in such a way
that he will seek the advice of your
medical profession so quickly that
either cancer will be prevented or, II
it is cancer, there will be 60 per cent
chances of a cure. But 1 sincerely
hope that the State of Delaware will
so realize it's obligations to its peo-
pie that it will not be content with
paying attention to only two of the
problems of cancer control, and will
take I'D the third-that of research.
Every state has its university, and
every university has its scientific
faculty, and in every faculty there
are members capable of research. AS
I have stated again and again, we
have the brains, but not the budget.
eve do not know the cause OF
cancer, nor as yet can we be certain
what science will find the ultimate
cause. Pasteur development, new
science which quickly lead to the
discovery of the cause, prevention !
and cure of rabies (hydrophoDia), =
lockjaw (tetanus), diphtheria and
more recently protection from ty- !
phoid fever. Jenner hit upon his :
for smallpox empirical
ly, almost in the same way as quiz J.
nine was discovered to cure malaria. j
The discovery by Ehrlich of his in
travenous treatment with salvarsan
FOR syphilis would never have been +
possible without Pasteur's work. +
Cancer Most Mysterious t
Cancer appears to be the most 1
mysterious and battling of all, but it
S quite possible that the mystery is t
apparent and battling is unreal, for t.
It this moment there is less than a
100. 900 dollars expended annually in Il
cancer research, and the number of '
rained research workers is ludic- v
'ousy insignificant. The State of
Massachusetts, alone is expanding \
more than 100000 dollars year on Y
he care of cancer patients and the G
evelopment of cancer clinics for I,
EDUCATIONAL purposes and practically .
.othing on research. y,
Therefore, we must emphasize ~
lore and more that there ore three ~ ~
hases in the cancer problem, and g
ne of them-cancer researches y
eceiving the least support and far a. =,
DO little in relation to its impor-
ance." M