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SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT OF
CANCER.
HALF-YEARLY MEDICAL EXAMINATION RECOMMENDED
FOR" THE MIDDLE AGED.
BEWARE OF ALL QUACKS AND
PATENT TREATMENTS.
Lecturing to the Rotary Club yesterday on the subject of the symptomä” and treatment of cancer, Dr. J. H. Montgomery "said it would be a good thing if every persen over, forty were examined every six months by a doctor. Then cancer would be detected at». aatago when it would yield to tenement.
A straight warning was given aguinal quack remedies. They were described as worse than useless beenuse they often wasted" time, at a period when the disease was passing from the curable to the incurable stage.
SURGERY AND RADIUM THE ONLY HELP.
Of all precancerous conditions chronic indamatory states are the most cominon and by chronic, in Bammation I mean the long con- Limed nation of any "irritant with the production of an abnormal kind;
of tissue.
Bacterial irritanta enter into the production of most precuDGETOUS
conditions. A good example of this condition is when cancer supervenes
at some part of the edge of w
site of the cancer, and in the breast which is a common site for cancer. the following should arouse
sub- ition that a cancer is forming, and
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There are some general symptoms which might be included amongst the earliest signa such as a leuling of debility and lassitude on the part of the patient together, with a lack of vigour and loss of weight, Those symptoms
ATO. sometimes accompanied by i pallor due to anaomia and that pallor in peculiar churnoturistic that people experienced in such matters cun sometimes recognise even before there is any local manifestation of
cancer:
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THE UNLUCKY RANCE.
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SHING MUN WATER SUPPLY.
JEWELS LOST FOR THIRD WHAT WE CET FROM THE
TIME.
The beautiful Rines of Pudukotn, who before her marriage was Miss Kamo Mary Fink, of Melbourne. Australia. is unlucky with the jewels for which she is famous.
INTAKE.
INTERESTING PACTS AND
FIGURES.
"We are taking and have been
He went
While paying calls in the Wast taking for a long time past every One other point that must be in-
End she lost. A platinum and dia-gallon of water flowing down the sisted on again is that in its earliest wond peart, brooch, valued at £1,000 Shing Mun River," said a Public Works Department official to our signs and symptoms pair is "ldom her third big loan. vf much significance. Any in
She left her home in South representative yesterday morning. abnormality or ulcer should be Eaton-place in `n car, and in the
ол to say (which has examined and treated by a com-afternoon visited some shops. When often been announced publicly) petent authority, that may cause of in Park-laho, she discovered that the that the intake in the bed of the chronic inflammation should be re-brooch was missing. It is believed Shing Mun River to the reception roservoir is distant about three moved and that any sito at which that it fell out when, during our
miles. The chronic inflammatory changes are of her calls, she alighted from her
water ia conveyed persent should be treated inmedi- car.
through twe tunnels and three
ately.
In 1929 the Ranes, lost a pearl lengths of conduit. After collection necklace valued at £8,000 while in the reception reservoir the water is either passed through the Alters walking in Bond-street.
She was the victim of a robbery or diversed into the Kowloon Bye- in 1921, when £5,000 worth of jewels
wash Reservoir.
were stolen from a Park-lane fat which her husband had taken for the season.
It has also been suggested that every man or woman of 10 years and upwards should undergo a thorough medical examination by
80 late that palliative treatment alone is possible, would be discovered in time for successful treatment and qurë.
I put these in the order of fro-doctor every six months ko u matter queney (1) a hump on swelling in of rousine and certainly if this were the breast; (2) a lump associated dane many a cancer which now is į with pain; and, (3), pain in the detected
breast, before a lump is detected, In a large series of cases of almost 1000 cancers of the broast almost 70 per cent. had as the carhest Symptom a lump in the breast. 11 per cent had to indication of a titut inu teether with some pain and definite only 8 per cent. had pain before mechanical injury is a hump was detected. If Buch a lump occurs the age of the patient present.
in of vital importance, for if she be under 35 years of age the pre- sumption is against cancer, if over
chronic ulcer such as a gastric ulcer or du aker on a feg
In 接 number pi which
souve
more com
known Lo have been Cancer of the lip is mon in men than in womer and *is often nasociated with smoking of elay pipe of which she end of the atom has been broken and often, too hot. Cancer of the tongue may appear at the side where the tongue has been irritated by a jagged tooth and cancer of the tongue or mouth ht point irritated by a badly fitting, denture. Cancer of the gall bladder is almost always associated with, the presence of one or more gull, stonka in the gall bladder, Cancer of the skin occurs amongst Hindu water curriers where string supporting the water vessel passes over the shoulder. Cancer of the insido of the cheela oceurs in those
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CTCAKES.
Treatment of Cancer.
Provided the general health be good the age of the patient does not affect to a large extent the treat ment of cancer in the sense that it can be carried out on the young and on the old without rotable differ ence or danger.
Surgical treatment for cancer has
35 the presumption is in favour of been employed for the greatest cancer, and that presumption' in-number of years and in the case of creases as her age above 35 in- localized cancer at certain sites It follows then that every is still the method of choice. Sur. woman with an abnormality of the gical operation is now dominated breast should be seen and treated by the necessity of removing the without delay.
cancer completely, less than this will not bring success by reason of the inherent power of multiplication possessed by any cancer cells lefs behind.
The Lip.
Pudukotah is in the Madras Pro sidency. Sir Martanda Bhairava Tondimar Bahadur, who died in 1929, married "Miss Fink in 1015. A son was born in 1913, and, as the Indian Government declared him ineligible for the SUCCESSION because he was not of pure Indian descent, the Rajah angounced his intention of living abroad
The intake at present is capable of dealing with 10 million gallons per day (about one day's supply for the whole Colony), and the tunnels and conduits about
25 million
gallons per day. Only during the rainy season could the quantity be
supplied by the river.
Useful Supply Still Coming In. During the earlier part of the dry season about 10 million gallons per day is dealt with but as the dry season progresses the Shing Mun River rapidly dwindles though it does not altogether dry up. A small but useful supply is still being drawn in ht the present time,
substances Sgurs over and ever again with the addition perhaps of some ingredient said to be known to the inventor alone and usually con- Asked whether a larger, intake [ded to him by the natives of some equld have been designed, our in- distant part of the world where formant replied that while it wa alone this particular ingredient can possible it would not have been be obtained. Recently preparations pronomical from the engineering have been put on the market the standpoint. It is only during the formulas for which have been given heaviest rains that the Shing Mun to individuals by departed spirits River intake takes its maximum, The curliest signa here are, of
who seem to know all about cancer For a very little while during the course quite different from cancer
and its cure, Morx.recently various rainy season when the river is in other places. The first thing
The Minstry of Health in Eng-preparations sald'to'contain radium in food, more water than that. noticed is a painless small pimple and states:-"That the records of ware exploited but careful exami- maximum could be collected, but or raised wart at the junction of various surgeons may be summarised nation showed that the monetary such an amount was not required the skin of the face "with the red as follows:-That in cancer of the value of the said paste or appliance then as the reservoirs would prob- spit skin of the lip itself. Soon breast of every 1,000 cases where in respect of the radium it contain-ably be full parts of the world where botel-uut this little lump breaks down and the completion operation is performed was often less than one penny. chewing is common.
on, the skin surface a smal ulcer pd whilst cancer is still localised Electrical appliances, and apparatus with raised red edges which shows to the breast, the survivors at the
The proposed Gorge Dam Resor- nu tendency to heal but rather end of five years number 671 and stituted a part of the wures offered voir, which will be capable of hold- Lendenes to spread." If this uleer at the end of ten yours 633. Of by the cancer curer. Faith healing 3,000,000,000 gallons of water, a class the non-malignant were not a caneer it would prob-1,000
where the complete,ing, Christian Science, special will be fed by the Shing Man River: tumours are distinguished from the ably be extremely painful and operation is performed when the articles of diet to be taken or The construction of this dam, will would be healed in a week or ten cancer affects the breast and also avoided, compression of the cancer- alignant tumours cr cancers by
tako five years.
From the intake many characteristics, and yet there days. The fact that it is painless the lymphatic glands in the armpitous mass, injuctions of various mab-
'water could discharge either to the is no hard and fast line of division and does not tend to heal confirms the survivors after five years quiz.
stances into the cancer, "swell the Alters or to the Kowloon Byuwash list.
Reservoir.
The Precancerous Character of Non- malignant Tumours.
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between them. It is a fact that certain varieties of non-malignant tumour are liable to change their imorous character and take on the character of malignant tumours. For example warts and moles which are usually simple and harmless may
the suspicion that, it is a malignant growth.
The Tongue.
Cases
of different types 'have always con-
Proposed Gorge Dam.
ber 250, at ten years 142,
Great responsibilities rests not
The best that can be said of some
Questioned as to a report that only upon the surgeons but of these methods is that they do the Harbour Pipe Line was giving the patients for it ia no harm to this patient beyond trouble, the offeind said that was patient who bas the raising hopes that can never be the first time he had heard of it. beat chance of knowing whether realized, of others it must be said untura! health. It is the patient comfort and hasten the end, of all line, and at the present moment it there is some departure from that they cause much pain and dis-
A diver was kept pretty regularly at inspection work on this pipe who must take some initiative in seeking competent medical advice, it is true that they are a waste of and too often does the patient's fear or procrastination or careless.
money and time. Waste of money ness or lack of observation that may bo bad enough when the brings about a request for medical patient is poor but waste of time fa, advanced that operation is quite help only when the disease is so in the case of cancer is infinitely out of the question.
worse and may well be fatal to rich and poor alike.
The earliest sign of cuncer in this | upon situation is an abraded surface on the the side of the tongue often caused by irritation of a tooth, or a small later tako on all the character of uleer on the tip of the tongue in ù rapidly growing mulignant growth, front, or a small ulcer on the floor Another example consists in what of the mouth botween the side of is an apparently simple tumour of the tongue and the gum. Such the breast which may be hurmless ulcer; if not cancerous, will heal and remain quiescent for years, quickly if the irritation be removed, suddenly takes on the power of cell but if the precancerous stage bis reproduction and becomes malig- heen pasaod and actual cancer bas begun, the case of this ulcer bo- comes hard, tends to spread and shows no sign of healing.
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The Earliest Signs of Dancer,
What are the earliest signs of Cancer is a question that is very often put and it is a question that is exceedingly difficult to answer for the carliest signs vary very much at the different sites the Cancer is going to attack. We cannot say what a precancerous condition be comes a cancerous condition and it follows either. (1) wo must wait until the cancer is self-evident, or
The first sign of cancer at the back of the mouth may be a ob struction in the swallowing of food duo-to the presence of a-tumour This is particularly liable to be the ense when the cancer originates in one or other tonsil.
The Gullet or Oesophagus.
Difficulty in swallowing/walid food
(2) rely on the symptoms and signs due to the presence of an obstrus given by the precancerous condition is usually the first sign of any tion. Of thrie alternatives tho į serious trouble. The size of the
A neungy accuracy.
The Stomach.
Radium Treatment.
Just as surgery has its limitationé in treatment so has radium," The bitution of radium treatment is that of giving a sufficient dose of as to the cancer cells without retrievable damage to the normal cells among which and beneath which they lie,
There are other limitations such as the treatment of a given .case requiring such a large amount of radium that it represents a capital sum outside the possibilities of any actual treatment by radium is a but rich corporations. Again the highly technical affair and requires An expert qualified to demonstrate
two limitations will disappear in. time.
Quack Remedios..
first definitely weights the scales obstruction can as a rule be in-it and as these are limited the vee against the patiens, tire veconddicated by the patient with almost of radium is also limited but tirese weights them in his favour. cancer which is definitely evident is less likely to be treated with success then adequate treatment of a pre-
ancerous condition, for that may The earliest signs of cancer of the remove the danger of cancer arising stomach which is one of the com- nt thus sits once and for all. monest sites of cancer, especially That is not to say that a de- in Western countries, are very in- finite cancer in any particular deßinite. There is reason to be region cannot be successfully treat-lieve that cancer does not occur ed, for in almost every site de here in perfectly healthy tissue and Raito cancers are dealt with success fully every day, but it means that the patients chances are greater And the necessary treatment is simpler when a precancerous con- dition is concerned rather than when an actual cancer is concerned.. The earliest signs, as has been pointed out, vary according to the
there has usually been in history of dyspepsin, loss of appetite and oc- ensional vomiting, after food, or perhaps of gastric ulcer for some weeks or months. Later this non cancerous dyspepsia is converted into a definito canner, but just when the change takes place it is impossible to estimate.
Conclusions,
In conclusion I cannot do better than quote, to you the main facts concerning cancer which the public should always bear in mind, which have been summarised under seven headings by the British Empire Cancer Campaign Council. These are
One must just refer to remedies and forms of treatment put forward as cancer cures by ignorant and often unscrupalous people. A 'core for cancer may vary from some-. thing which is as harmless as it in useless to something which in really injurious. Of the former kind are viclot leaves and molasses and a host of other... substances, of the... latter tartar emotic, arsenic, and zine. These appear as fuide, pills, ointments, paste and special appli nices. When examined the same (Enstinued on next column:)
1.-Cancer is relentless if ignored. 2-1n its early stages cancer is
very often painless, 3.--In its early stagen cancer is 4.In its early stages very often purely local disease.
cincor can be treated with complete success.
-It is in its earliest stages that competent medical advice must be sought. 6.The only reliable methods of -treatment for cancer known at
was as tight as when laid
It will be remembered that re-
cently the Director of Public Works Announced that 1,000 m.g. or about
present are surgical operation,
and radiation.
7. For complete success treat ment of cancer by operation or radiation must be exten.. Bive and adequate.
1.1.D. CERTIFICATES,
m.g. per diem, on an average were received through the Harbour Pipa during the year..
FURTHER KOWLOON.
RESTRICTIONS.
THREE HOURS SUPPLY PER
DAY.
The Director of Public Works
notice regarding water supply Yesterday forwarded the following
Kowloon Peninsula, ·
Meter Services and Old Street Fountains.
Commencing on Wednesday, June at 4.30 p.m. a three hours' supply from the mains will be given cach day between the hours of :-
7m to 6.30 am, and 4.30 p.m," to 4.00 p.m.
New Group Street, Fountains (Kowloon Peninsula).
Commencing on Wednesday, June 1. 4t 220 p.m. an eleven hours'. supply will be given daily between the hours of —
Of the Societe Internationale de Placements, Basle (Local agents Messrs. Gooke & Co.).
17 am and 6 p.m.;. Monday's official quotation is from the new group street foun- Baalo-£26, 0đ.
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