The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-27
EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE CANCER
 PHOBIA

The time to be afraid of cancer is before you get cancer A certain amount or cancer pHopia ID eoO~ thing for everybody.
 once reader saw something in this column that made him fear he had cancer. In great pertur baton he hurried to his physician. Fhe doctor made an examination and found there was no cancer, only a neglected case or nem- orrhoids The doctor cured the hemorrnoids with injection treatment The patient nappenea s o O be in position to punish me and d1d take .evenge on me for having scared nm so but | don't care a hoot if did scare him-it brought about cure Of ms trouDle' wnlcn, ! | not cured, might eventually develop into can- | ,er I'd as soon every fool in the eoun- | Try who toerates chronic hemmorrhoids ii | could make most of them seek proper treat- ment. Cancer begins as a spot where the normal cells are changed by injury or prolonged irri. tation to abnormal cells ana ny aOnorma, I, the early stage this is all localized condition If the individual affected Is fortunate enough to take alarm and go to the physician Tor ex- animation and advice at the first sign of such la spot or lump, the chance of cure Is excellent. If the individual fails to be alarmed or chooses to ignore the little abnormality or just waits and hopes it is nothing serious, the chance or cure diminishes day by day.
 There is a movement at present to teach the public that every woman should have a health exa animation twice year, including pelvic ex- animation, as a protection against cancer. l think this is silly idea. But every woman who notices anything unusual or who believes there
 
 such examination and be guided by her physi- clans advice instead of just worrying about 1t or monkeying with some alleged treatment or |remedy for female complaint" woman should report to her physician particularly any unusual bleeding other symptom or sign of whose significance she is in doubt The skilled application of X-rays and surgery Is the best treatment for any form of cancer to-day In some cases radium may be prefer able to X-ray. In any case. surgery is safer, less painful and less mutating in effect than any ga aye or "SOlVeut" a charlatan.
 Women who become sufficiently alarmed at the discovery of little lump in the breast to go at once to the physician for examination
 learn in S5 per cent of cases that 1t Is not q serious condition and requires no treatment. In only 15 per cent of cases do such Jumps prove of serious significance. Surely 1t is justiable to scare the 85 women to that degree for the sake of bringing the 15 women under proper treat ment at the earliest possible moment. Skin cancer never begins in normal skin, but always in some spot or blemish that has been long present and perhaps often irritated, some such lesion mole, wart, nevus or a rough scaly spot All these are readily amen- able to various modern surgical methods and should be removed for mere cosmetic reasons as we'll as protection against the development
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Hair Falling I am 20 years old and greatly troubled be- cause my hair falls out and is so dry and britt tie. Miss B. R.)
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 | Dr Duffie on Sugar Test felt I. could not afford to have the doctor
 make sugar test every week. l wrote and
 asked Dr Dunie about it. He reDleid that the
 management of diabetes on one sugar test a
 week Is about as hopeful as trying to put on
 weight one meal week. But since Ob- tained Dr Dunie's book do my own testing and
 am getting on fine. co. l.. WI Answer-Every diabetes patient who finds
 medical treatment too costly should follow the sound advice and instructions in Dr Dufie s
 book. It teaches many other helpful things be-
 sides how to make your own sugar tests. "A
 Book for Us Diabetics" by Dr Don H. Dufie. Central Lake. Mich, is an excellent 12 shilling
 investment for any family with diabetes pa-
 tient to care for. Soda for Cramps am happy to tell you that your tseatment | for cramps in the limbs (Onc half teasp0onful
 of saleratus. baking soda, bicarbonate of soda,
 taken in q little water) has proved very good.
 Many thanks for your helpful advice. (drs A.
 McQD
 Answer-other readers who have any ex-
 perience with this remedy for leg cramps
 please write n
 Candy for Fatigue | Much interested in your statement that candy
 or sugar prevents or cures fatigue or cxhaus.
 person takes some candy or other sweet before
 participating in strenuous game? (Sfiss "A lkJ
 | Answer--Yes. Bettor educated coaches ad.
 wise football players to take some candy or sugar tn one form or another in the intervals
 between playing periods. old time coaches arc
 still drowning on indulgence In such food. but