INCREASE OF CANCER
DUE TO BETTER DIAGNOSIS. MORE LIVE TO CANCER AGE. Referring in the course of his address at the Rotary Club luncheon yesterday to the increase in the number of cancer cases, Dr. W. J. Mayo said that to some extent the increase was more apparent than real, being due in part to better diagnosis. Then, owing to preventive medicine many more people now lived on into the fifties instead of dying in their early forties, and the average age at which cancer began was 52. Always there was something that could bo seen to indicate its presence, either outside the body or inside by means of X-rays; and if the. patients were operated on early, before the cancer spread into the lymphatics and the nodes, they would get well and stay well. The increase in canoer was merely an increase in the number of people who were reaching the cancerous age.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11784, 21 March 1924, Page 10
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