DREAD SCOURGE
DOCTOR'S WABNING WITH RE-
GARD TO CANOEB.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHKISTCHTJBCH, 26th August.
Reporting to the North Canterbury Hospital Board on cancer, Dr. Fenwick said that the Government Statistician had supplied him with some figures. '' Consideration of these will explain my anxiety that those who feel out of health should not postpone an examination and should never regard as trivial symptoms which may be the earliest warnings of a dangerous disease," he said.
In 1025 the number of women who died between tho ages of forty and sixty years from* all causes was 1032. Of this number 267 died from some form of cancer; that is, one out of every four deaths was due to malignant disease. During 1925 114 women died from cancer of the breast and ninetysix from cancer in the wombt
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Evening Post, Volume 50, Issue 50, 27 August 1926, Page 6
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