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"CAPTAIN OF THE MEN OF DEATH."
CANCER IS CURABLE IF ATTACKED "IN TIME.
distant parts, and rarely by in- vasion of the blood vessels, and the transmission of the cancer cells in the blood stream. The rate of spread- ing and the rate of dissemination vary greatly in different · in dividuals, and in different parts of
BROADCAST LECTURE BY DR. CANNON. the body. The disease has some
"
A very interesting and highly instructive lecture on Cancer was brandcast from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station last night by 'Dr. A. Cannon, in the course of which he said that Cancer in its earliest stages, if accessible, is curable. Dr. Cannon emphasised the danger of procrastination in consulting a doctor. "The first day is the day for action: the second day is one day too late."
times become generalised before the patient has had the chance to realize that he is attacked; as for example cancer of the rectum, and in certain cases of cancer of the stomach.
1.-Cancer rarely causes pain in ita early stages of development. It is pitiful to hear the patient fre- quently erroneously protest that a growth cannot be of a nature becO1130 no pain results from it. Pain in the tongue is
Berimus
THE FIGHT AGAINST MAN'S GREATEST conspicuous by its absence until
Dr. Cannon said:
SCOURGE.
The questions which the National Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign "have attempted
to answer are:-
1.Why are we so interested in
Cancer t
2. Why are we making or plan- ning to make, a mass attack on this enemy
upon
The muswers include the follows ing:-Cancer is, far more to be teared, more dangerous, and for more relentless, than any other disense that we know of. Whilst other diseases are yielding to in vestigation and treatment, based our increased knowledge, cancer is not only resisting well- | planned and far more successful, attucks, but is actually gaining ground. Lord Moynihan describes Cancer as the "Captain of the Men of Death," and I should well like to substantiate his statement by the memorable words of Glad stone: The Angel of Death is abroad in the Land; you can feel the beating of his wings." Figures given for the last twenty years show that the general death rate has fallen by 3 per cent, the infant mortality rate has fallen by 45 per cent., the tuberculosis death-rnte has fallen by 39 per cent., but the cancer death rate has increased by 20 per cent.
Some attempts have been made to explain these facts:-It is known that the average expectation of life has increased, and hence a larger number of people live to reach the (45 to 65 years). The argument against this is that although it is to some extent true, the average duration of life is mathematically longer chiefly be cause of the lower infantile death
cancer age
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almost in despair, the surgeon is called into the rescue.
Woe to those who believe not in a good surgeon, for he is also a good physician, in the first place.
Beware of Quacks. Quacks with their "' cancer cures court the patient's assured disaster: beware of them, for they are as a inake in the grass, Lord Moynihan says, The desire for methods other than those which authority advises is as old as the days of Naaman, Captain of the bosts of the King of Syria. When Elisha advised him to wash seven times in Jordan and so be cleansed of his leprosy, his wounded chau viniarn made him cry out, * Are not Aban, and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus better than all the waters (little insignificant pools of water) of Israel1"
It does not pay to
ignore the obvious.
late in the disease; and when pain is present, it is the Bar rather than' the mouth of which complaint, is made. This is correct. in 95 per cent. of cases. In tumours of the breast, as a rule, no pain is caused until the skin is involved; the great importance of this là em- phasised by Moynihan, Crile, and Mayo, for in women over 35 years of age, a lump in the breast`is malignant in out of cases, It should be remembered that the existence of cancer is compatible with perfect health, and in a few cases there may even be a gain in weight and a remarkable feeling of vigour, and strength, and well- being. That ill-health, anemia, lassitude, distaste for food and loss of weight are to be regarded as the symptoms without which a diagnosis can hardly be made, is a piece of knowledge which should now be buried in the dust.
Cancer is Curable..
8.-Last, but by no means least, it should be written in letters of A man's life has three stages:gold, that while the enurer is locat Growth, accomplishment and of and the growth accessible, cancer decline. Cancer seizes man usually in the later half of this second stage, when he at his best, giving to the world the harvest of a long spent season of sowing. Surely it was not meant that man should die before his work was completed ac- cording to plan?,
CRA
The important, points we learn in connection with cancer, are eight in number.
1-it frat cancer is a total die care,
It is not a disease of the blood. Moreover it remains local for periods that vary in length, according to circumstances; it may prove fatal whilst still localized, as for instance, when the colon is attacked and obstruction brought about, etc.
2.-Cancer chooses to attack diseased rather than a healthy
curable. The most accessible are three of the colon; and then the breast the lenet accessible are growths of the gullet cancer of the paneres, lung, and prostate: in these latter large group of cases, surgery will probably never be able to offer hope of substantial relief. Don't we urgently need research en cancer, if only because of these lätter cases alone? The resistance of the palient to the inroads of enneer varies very much. It de pends on the human sail as to whe ther it takes root at all, and if it does, whether it spreads slowly or fapidly. Therefore watch the
soil!" It has been recorded that one reinarkable case, an atrophic scirrhus cancer of the breast "was under observation for over twenty years, and did not in the end prove fatal, hence was "spontaneously
rate. Leonard Hill states. "The organ. My old and highly respect cured "; chat is, a growth definite-
expectation of life has gone up for infancy, but not for the period of late middle life. There is o problem of what we are to do with our grandfathers; they are living scarcely any longer than they did 30 years ago."
ed teacher, from whom it was a great bonour to sit at his feet and learn of the great truths which he unveiled to his followers in his Clinic (the Moynihan Clinic), went always a step further and would. reiterate this great truth: "Car necer, deçelajk na healthy tixxue:
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ly recognised as cancerous by the one infallible test, microscopy, has shrunk, and at last disappeared. The only method which offers no Assured hope in early cases of ac- cessible cancer, is the method of Some state that our diagnosis is
surgery. The thethod of surgery, diseased tissue-no cancer."
however, is not always available, now more accurate and therefore the increase is only apparent.
Here in stimulus to health autho-
for if the growth is inaccessible, or if a growth at one time accessible There is an element of truth in this, rities, was it not in the investiga
tions of tuberculosis that the value
has by delay become disseminated, but if we pay regard, to those cases in which diagnosis can never have of fresh air and oxygen, and then no operation can eradicate been found difficult, because the cleanliness, in everything generally the disease and course must be. cancer was near the surface, and was introduced, and so healthier had to other methods: of these, easily felt or seen, it is shown that tissue was brought into being and X-rays and Blair Bell's injections. of colloidal lead are by far the this argument is not sustained. We hence other disenses which were are told that in cancer of the
then prevalent, now lie silent in
most valuable. It is interesting to tongue there has been an increase the grave, from which we hope learn that X-rays seem to be more effective when recrifed by an ing of 30 per cent, and in cancer of there will be no resurrection.
3-Antecedent the breast 29 per cent., in the last
cnditions. truvengia injection of 10 en of a
in- Sir Jonathan Hut- su per cent. solition of glucose as 20 years" "But there is also the fence cancer. other side of the question, for itchinson once described the pre-first suggested by E. G. Mayer. must not. be. forgotten that some cancerous conditions" conditions lew diseases called cancerous in other days, are now known to be simple." Diverticulitis of the colon was thought to be cancer, na were some chronic gastric ulcers with much induration, and fre- quently chronic pancreatitis was diagnosed as a cancerous growth.
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which may become, but were not
Cancer cancerous. then. developes on a healthy tengue: chronic irritation is a definite pre- cursor of this Angel of Death. Virchow was the pioneer in stating that repeated injuries, amounting
to
almost unceasing irritation, spread over many months, or even years, might provoke cancer.
Increased Death Eate. Note that the increased death
Causes Influencing Cancer. rate from cancer occurs despite, the fact that more people than ever 4.-Certain factors, sometimes re- are being cured of cancer. It is garded neauges," are said to true that cancer can be cured per-influence ita pecurrence. They are manently. The Council say three in number: (a) Heredity is We are apt to bear of the failures said to be one factor, but statistics of surgery,
as well as of its don't uphold the statement. The successes. Montaigne thought the fact that one person in seven over I doctor to be among the tnost fortu- } the age of thirty dies of cancer, nate of beings, because the sun shone must be remembered; (6) Diet has upon his successen, while his been blamed: only in so far as they failures were buried in the tomb. may, lower resistance or produce But this is not altogether true. disease, can their factor as a We hear of deaths from operations, "cause be considered. The Me of recurrences of cancer after its morandum on Cancer issued by the removal; we hear little even from Ministry of Health states that it the rescued of their freedom from cannot be asserted with scientific this disease." This is probably be authority, that the use of any cause the "rescued" regard it as particular article of food increases sort of morul blemish; as some the liability to cancer or prevents thing equivalent to epilepsy, etc., it from appearing"; (e) That in the family, The reason why cancer houses" and cancer dis- mura cures are not brought about, tricts" exist, there is no proof. is because the public hesitate. The Striking examples of individual ex- old saying that he who hesitates ceptions are given Dr. Bambon in lost" is a more forceful truth discovered in the village of San here than in any other sphere. Michele, in the Italian Tyrol, that.
almost every case of cancer that had occurred there for years past, had been located to a single street." "Dr. Cinncertaler of Villa Lagaria said that practically every case of cancer for the past 40 years had occurred in one street, the Via Damians Chiesa."
What is the patient's point of view; who notices a lump on her body, say a lump in the breast She at once says that there is some- thing wrong, and it may be cancer if it is cancer she must then under- go an operation; if she does she may die if she survives, the cancer, may return: if it returne, 5.-Cancer is neither contagious, she must submit once more to sur- nor infectious. Up to the present gical interference, with all its all research carefully done on this risks: even then the cancer may subject by reliable authorities, reoccur. The whole prospect is de
proves this to the satisfaction of pressing and hopelcas: she had the Medical Council. better say nothing about the lump 6.- Carcer spreads from its local that is the wrong attitude | origin by direct extension," and by which is repeatedly taken by the the invasion of lymphatic vesseli, public at large. Time passes; the when they convey cancer cells to lump grows larger, and finally,neighbouring glands and thence to
Radium also has its uses, and also very remarkable temporary re- sults have been obtained. To re-t liably compure results we must be Aure that in every case the disease was cancer, and nothing else will de than the test by the microscope and the opinion of a competent histologist. Hippocrates says that.. judgment may be fullacions: there- ford two opinions are better than
-one.
It is admitted that a well-con- sidered dietary for a case of cancer may do much to improve the general health, and to increase per- haps the patient's defence and so to bring about a temporary amneliö- ration of his lot, but beyond that, nothing.. Greater Buccess in the treatment of accessible cancer by operation can only come about by earlier diagnosis and treatment, more extensive operations, attend- ed by lower immediate mortality, carlier access of the doctor to the
This latter is probably patient. the greatest problem of all. There
day when cancer ix"atili local, and therefore, if accessible, is cur abla; there is a day when dis semination first occure; the one day immediately follows the other. The first day is the day for action: the second day is just one day tod late.
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