FACTS ABOUT CANCER
ESSENTIAL OF CAMPAIGN
EDUCATING THE PUBLIC
LONDON, Hth November. ' The National Radium Commission announces that a largely-increased supply of radium, is about.to become available_ to the medical profession in the campaign against cancer, but a caretully drawn-up statement warns tho public against extravagant claims, and urges the public to consult a doctor more readily instead of concealing or disregarding symptoms. The Commission affirms that the treatment of cancer, if it is to be successful, whether it-makes for surgical excision, cautory,' radium, or X-rays, must bo undertaken early, or before dissemination baa occurred, and reiterates thai: the essential part of the campaign against cancer consists of education and the intelligent co. operation of "the public, so that early diagnosis and prompt treatment can be secured. There is no proof whatovor that cancer is infectious or contagious. There is no evidence that it is hereditary, except in one rare form of cancer of th& eye.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 9
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156FACTS ABOUT CANCER Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 9
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