Show fi Row w Cancer ant r Experts Differ D II r Baltimore tug Baltimore BaIt physicians agree with theca tIMI of New York In hi that ut caa t is more ore to be feared by r the human race mice i ithan than is la phthisis owing 0 to the die tb fact tact that t tita its ita nature is I less lee understood by the medical fraternity than Ulan is Ie Hon tion but Baltimore doctors docton of prom prominence prominence differ as to the disease being incurable at as s was claimed ela by Dr Roe Boa lQ well ell Park of Buffalo now no in Berlin and a number of ol prominent New New York physicians according accords to o a dispatch from Nw York pub published ed In the Sun yesterday A number of physicians p seen yester yesterday yesterday ter day daJ declined to o allow now a themselves to te tobe tebe tobe be quoted A few te did however permit themselves to be questioned and the replies were all alt confirmatory con of the X 11 New w York opinion as regards the prevalence prevalence alence of the disease dl ea e and the difficulty which is met with in treating it suc successfully c Opinions however differed widely Idel as te to the possibility of perma permanently permanently permanently curing it Dr Howard Hoard A Kelly the surgeon of the tb Johns Hopkins hospital declared that tat the disease dH can be per permanently and nd effectually cured In the case of cancers of the skin by the ap application application of the Xray and nd also in the case of the other othet forms forme of the disease dl eue when hen taken tUn in time by the radical use u e of the knit knife care cam being particularly directed to operating over a sufficient area when removing the obnoxious growth Cancer and nd tuberculosis said 14 Dr Kelly KUy are the tile two to dreadful atul maladies which bie today t y more than t any an other dis dlo disease ease eases menace humanity Cancer is i very prevalent p lent and nd has been increasing Increasing ing lu rapidly In the past generation It cannot be said Id however that no ad advance advance vance ance has b been made mads In the t stud of the disease for a very very veri important ad advance 1 vance ance nee has ha been made in ia the case ea of skin cancer by the use of the Xray which completely and finally destroys this form of ot the disease d Tor the other forms forma th the only remedy is I the t timely and radical use of the knife kalte The disease dl is I local l eal at t the out outset outset set and can be permanently and rad radically radically cured euld by the timely U use of ot sur aur surgery aurIel surgery gery Iel It only ont becomes becom a blood bloed disease when ND neglected and nd in the later stages The n reason on why surgery is la ad often un unsuccessful successful tul is that all surgeons burgeons have han hannot not recognised the importance of mak making makIn making ing In the operation sufficiently auA radical m I If the operation Is I well ell done and covers cover a proper area Iea the vast t majority of cases should be curable In ht I the tile earlier stages ages The uThe disease 41 Is an overgrowth of the cells cen of the body y In a disorderly way waya a disorderly overgrowth of st the tile tissues t which runs run riot without t any ny restraint nt and nd destroys de troye life largely large in hi a mechanical meen mechanical ical leal way by blocking block the channels of the body as well ell as a through rough tit absorption a by the blood of the tile poison from the cancer caneer cells The n com commonest monet monest forms form are art cancer of the breast stomach and nd womb Ken Meu M have the Ute dis disease 4 disease ease in the mouth and tile the Intestinal tract the former f f sometimes from smoking moki Please say 53 thir thie for f r me nee continued Dr DT Kelly Kello The public at t large lara have no moral right t r expect pert US ut to discover a rut cur for rancor caner until they apply the KilO kno we I already have bave b b by which h hw w we can an perfectly tire curp tuberculosis An efficient t board of ot health heal with men like Dr Posley Paley and Dr Fulton Pulton at the head of it with a proper number of aids Ida and the gt ge of military laws lawe awe fori for i iV i 1 I pe en n and u J S ol of Q a H u lf i house hu uth ith c cAan an h ct cl n methods method of ot housekeeping c c clean c Uv ltv living sad and above all ail clean lean I I streets would 0 almost almet wipe out tuber u los s within a decade It If I ii had fifty persons persona peno in a room halt half with I losia osla and the U other half with cancer and some me one came to me ma and said aid I 1 have bane Ie discovered how bow you GU can an cure those persons penona who 0 have lIae on mp I ties tion and I refused to make mke use of the i measures pointed out ot to secure E CUI this I condition would I have any right togo to togo toco go co to that same man and demand a acure acure acure cure for the who had can call cancer cancer J Dr James S Barnard w well ell known know n a aa i ia a and surgeon ft end and ltd as the I founder of o th the Barnard sanitarium on North Charles street treet where wheN much investigation In Investigation Inv v along alo modern lines has been done do recently particularly in the treatment of blood diseases d took a radically opposite view of the matter i from that taken by Dr Kelly Keib hA As a matter of fact tact said Mid Dr Bar Barnard i j jnard inard nard the he t disease is la not really realty of the i i kind which one can intelligently talk taU about for tor publication I believe that the can an be used in the more moi e superficial cases with good effect but the result obtained w will ill more likely be M bethe I f Ithe the total relief of the pain than the theof final cure of the disease As Ae to the use usa of e the knife I do not think that it can n I be relied upon to te effect a cure I have hae known knon of o cases cased in which several levera opera oper operations tiona had no lasting effect The patient might go ao for tor a year or more without I there theft being any recurrence of the die dis disease ease eaR But It would still be in his blood I believe bellee that the disease d alM Is I one of the blood that it is 8 in larte large measure hered hereditary herc hereditary and an that it is ill allied to consumption tion and nd other diseases which find their i irise rise in a deteriorated condition due to i faults either of the or of hi his 1118 forebears I do not believe that it it is I curable permanently by any known know n method The Xray will obliterate 1 pain In rand aAd a wilt will control the disease inmost in m I most cases c ea for a period o of rom on onO oil month to two or three years But I Ido Ido Ido do not think that it reaches the deeper d per structures or that It effects a cure eUre The Journal Journ of the American menean Medical Medi fedi Medical cal association for March 3 31 last laps it was aa pointed out by one of 01 the tM physicians clans clana visited contained a statement t to the effect that the New Se York Yeah y state tate Le leg legislature Ie legislature has baa cut off oft an a Ion of HMO Ii a year allowed eer Laboratory at Buffalo for tor u Hon of investigation into nature and cure o of cancer the reason given ft fr tr the tM withdrawal of the state aid being r that the results shown hown did not justify the expenditure Dr n Park is said acid to be connected with ith this institution I tion n I |