CANCER CAN BE CURED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17834, 30 April 1926, Page 15

CANCER CAN BE CURED.

BUT EARLY TREATMENT IS IMPERATIVE. u tln> "Star,") •MTKI.ANO, April W Tim up t thut I’iMH'fir taw Vm rwrvH if bvk'o\\ i t tvuiah, Mum H van, in faot, Vm 14 diVD'H i»\ tnv' \m\ y " Ua* catum*! Wllh'll lOPftUv, dlbl thtf JHll'llG I Ip** \\*su a*Uihth if this is ha, why : irmHioal ixiuvi *F* iuh iinonvi ihfj v**'c*blp an t<i Mm early Hvmjiioavi H tlm »1D efp*f\ L' M*«l, aH ran l**> takun fit Mm wilnpraMißtv \ \ youthful patuw 1 Mft i*vtl*\F' Ot'iWrtvul Hus Uni thr Awiklaial pv'Mluh h Iho iMUtah MaHivat A swift 1 1* m to ftbftmUm its tradUtotuM I'nikv c»i and to vimtartake to mifdiiy who will tqvak on thin VlL'f HUbjeoY Similar o-liuMUni'mi eampaifiD Mf-Bdl M»«vrvw, {n t,hr Untttnl Siattr. -oirl tloMtilg Lava lmcn uivet\ bv \h T. 1. Hughey Medical omcm- of H*tilth, on tin? authority of Dr J, Vv»\Uijf, of Ktlinbinah. Snpultih£ of (‘tvo. hemptlttl dh\i©B, whith fntuuil t'ftt t of a wirle Mohani§ of lfinor't* iMOpagmnlft in Amntion. the latitr hrttl tdnUvl that the retmlla were *»* striking that the time was dearly mop f• o- omvtfMiwutMn of their value in fihMt 1 1 vitr\in. Two fftvtnift were to 1«; etm>hrtsi?<od. One was the very pcmeiitistable i hunee of core by surgery ami tTHlhnion treatment in the early Magru, ;'I his had been |*rovorl vonolusively, urn-1 wins c specially obvious in aovusj ifiblo vaiicer. Thus tUc lurnleme of l live vunf utnclk after operation where | oanoor had not spread to the glands [has in the It r». VK> to Oft per cent; in I the breast. To por cent; and in the j tongue. 02 per cent.. In ecu viral ranIvor, the results were equally striking. I The second point to bo emphasised I was that tho very considerable powers | possessed by tho medical profession wore largely frustrated by the fact that the majority of cases wore seen only in tlu» 'ater stage. When tho causes underlying this tact were considered, there could be no doubt that the. most important was ignorance on the part of the public of the signs of early cancer, as also of its curability in the early : tages. Thus few women Uneav that a lump on the breast was dangerous, and that in women over forty years ago* it. implied cancer in SO per cent of cases, hew men knew the dangers of a pap-healing rove up the lip or the tongue. be\v people, too, knew that rancor in its. beginnings, and during its vurabH: stages, was merely a painful ailment. After aUnwina for the cures actually acrotupiushed by surgery and radiation treatment- it has beep computed that in males at least ope-third, and in tenia lea at least one-half of all the canters are capable of early removal and cure He ter ring to the peed of cancer propaganda in New Zealand, lb Hughes stated that a pamphlet entitled, "oam v?Ti I it ' arable? ' was published bv the ltepartvuenv of Health ht bdh, and was ' treat la led to all emcees of the He patUYwnv in the PommitMh to bring the causes of the dmease before the public H was also forwarded to all Hospital Hoard* which ware acting as local authorities tor infection* diseases-.