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BRITISH NATION'S HEALTH
SPREAD OF CANCER.
SAE WORLD-WIDE INCREASES CO
While in recent years great gains have been made in the health of the nation and the rate of mortality lina declined. | there remain certain sections of the death rate, both as regards age and cause, which are exceptionally high. Further, a serious amount of preventable
sickness and avoidable disablement exists the tendency of which mast inevitably be to undermine the physical stamina, of the people reducing their capacity and abort ening their days. In brief, there is much physical impairment which is prevent able.
Sir George Newman, Chief Medical Officer of the Health Ministry, thus sins up the main results disclosed in his an- nual survey of the State of public health Among the adverse features which he specially notes are the continued increase: of cancer and the relatively heavy” morta ality-much of which is preventable- 14th Nov.MAKARAR & SORRAAA from tuberculosis, and diseases of the 17th Nov, RATATTA
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heart, respiratory organs, and nervous system.
Special attention is being devoted by the Ministry to the problem of cancer, auda Departmental, Committee is now inquiring into its incidence, enusation prevalence, and treatment. Sir George Newman describes the recorded increase in the death-rate from the disease as dia turbing. Official figures show that that rate is more than seven times what it' was in 1838.
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Between 1951 and 1921 the recorded mortality from cancer has increased at all ages and very rapidly in the older agat groups In the ease of males the mort- ality in the decennium 1911-50 in the 45-56 sga group was more than four times what it was in the decennium 1851-1880 for the sante age group in the age group 55-63 it was nearly five times as much; in the age group 65-75 it was five and a hall times as great and in the group 76 and upwards almost six times. In the case of females for the same age groups the in-. creases are not so marked, the proporAGENTS for Hongkong and South Chins tions being approximately 2, 21, 3, and 4. In the latest available year, 1921, the
ates are still higher.
Contrusting broadly the features of the mortality, from cancer in the two sexes, two conclusions are clear. The first is that local predisposition, whether in itself or combined with local stimulation, is an element of the first importance in the etiology of malignant disease. The second is that the action of some general outstanding economic or social factor common to both sexea, such, for exani ple, as the ingredients of a national diet. though apparently involved, must be very indirect and its final resultant profoundly modified by local organic peculiarities
It has been argued that the recorded increase of cancer mortality, owing to improved methods of iliagnosis and other. factors, is mano apparent than real Un- fortunately, the extensive Unta available in England and Wales do not support this view.-but confirm the popular impressim that the recorded increase of mortalit is not a statistical fiction, but an estal Habed fact. Similar testimony is forth- coming from other countries, and the broad fact to be gleaned from the inter national statistics is clearly that the re- corded mortality from cancer is increas ing throughout the world,
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Of the six principal "killing" diseases respiratory disease, diseases of the heart and circulation, diseases of the nervous system, cancer, tuberculosis (all forms), and diseases of the alimentary canal-cancer is the only one that is de- finitely and uniformly increasing. Tuher culosis is declining steadily.
PROBLEM OF CAUSATION. Discussing the prospects of £ success ful solution of the cancer problem. Sir George Newman states;
Statistical and epidemiological methods of inquiry, although doubtless powerless to reveal either the cause or the care of malignant disease, have not yet been Bufficiently used na instruments of etio- logical research. Perhaps one reason for this is that in the statistical examina- tions which have been made the attempts to treat the cancer problem as a whole have been too ambitions. What is neces- sary is a patient and minute analysis of certain special phenomena In the laboratory, precise knowledge of the eytological phenomens of malignant dis eate in animals is being extended, and experimental "resulte of the highest im- portance have already been achieved dur ing the last quarter of a century, The, now knowledge of nutrition has suggested various possible lines of inquiry and the integration of this laboratory knowledge. with the facts of human experience, and with inquiries suggested by experimentul, work, is full of promise.
But victory, long foretold" and hoped for, will not happen by chance or neglect There must be continued and persistent investigation a much closer observation and differentiation of the cancer which exista, in respect of age, sex, race, site, in the body, and the true effect of opera tion or other forms of treatment: im proved methods of treatment must, be minutely studied and followed up; and such ptcreative steps as seem to be prac tivable must be tried
One cardinal factor is now generally accepted as playing a predominant part in the causation of cancer, namely, the chronic or prolonged irritation," in the widest interpretation of the term, of Lepithelial cells in different parts of the body, which results in their proliferation and thus the formation of malignant tumours. Buch irritation may arise from chemical agents (eg, coal tar, paraffin, toot, arsenic), physical agents Chent, repeated injury), infective agents (bacteria, protozon, nema- todes, and other parasites). The number of possible causes of irritation is so great, those quoted being merely examples, that it may be supposed that few individuals reach the cancer, age (say, after 40 years) without being subjected to one or other of them. Yet happily seven out of eight persons escape. Some other factor must therefore be in operation which pre- (Continuta on next oclume.)
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In his general review of the work of the National Health services, Sir George Newmar is able to point to substantiz] results in various directions, and notably in the growing success of the campaign against tuberculosis. The facts, be says, “' show that the conquest of tubercle is taking place before our eyes.”
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