GREAT INCREASE
THE TOLL OF CANCER
IMPROVING TREATMENT
LONDON, 9th December.
'' Cancer may well be called the ' captain of the men of death,' " said Lord Moynihan, president of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, declaring that cancer alone, among the six great deadly diseases in Britain, had shown an increase in victims during the past 20 years. At present, he said, the death rate from cancer was five times that in 1860.
There many explanations, including greater accuracy of diagnosis, while the increased chances of life resulted in more living to the cancer age, which was over 35. The increase occurred in spite of the fact that more cures had been effected, than ever before in history. Operations were far more safe than..previously. Personally, he had lost only one patient in an operation for cancer of the breast, but he never expected to lose another.
Lord Moynihan deprecated many doctors' doubts regarding the efficiency of operations, adding, \" Instead of sayiig, 'Let us wait and see whether this is a malignant growth,' you should go in and look.*,* Moreover, people apparently regarded cancer as a shameful moral blemish,- and never talked about a successful operation. If only they boasted of cancer cures it would do much good. : ■ '
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 147, 19 December 1932, Page 9
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205GREAT INCREASE Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 147, 19 December 1932, Page 9
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