Show Advice on Your Jj Health By Morris r FIshbeIn h Edi Editor Journal our American cn Medical Association c I This is the third of four article articles arti anti cles cle des in lU which Dr Fishbein discusses discusses discusses dis dis- cusses the new knowledge concerning concerning concerning con con- cancer Most important of all are causes of death in the United States is heart disease Second most important important important im im- im- im is cancer About people die of cancer cancer cancer can can- every year in the United States It is estimated that for each person who dies there are three living with this disease so that approximately additional additional additional addi addi- people suffer from cancer The rate for cancer has been steadily increasing It was 63 per in 1900 and it is about now Of course the rate for heart disease has also been increasing increasing- from per population In 1900 to around now Cancer is essentially a disease of old people Since more people are living longer more and more people are likely to die of cancer Therefore the increase in the death rate of cancer does not mean that people are more likely to have cancer now than formerly In addition to the fact that people people peo peo- plc are living longer we must also take into account the fact that new methods have been developed whereby it is possible to diagnose cancer more certainly and mucH earlier than was formerly possible Ninety-five Ninety per cent of all the cases of cancer occur after the age of ot 35 Women suffer more frequently from cancer than do men However However However How How- ever cancers of the mouth lips and tongue are more common in men than in women although in recent years there has been an increase increase in increase in- in crease of such cancers in women This may be associated to some extent with Increase in smoking among women Almost every organ of the body may be affected with cancer Th The form which affects most people of f both sexes is cancer of the stomach ston ach next comes cancer of the I Intestines in intestines In- In then cancer of the breast breas and then cancer of the skin m Cancers of the stomach caused almost deaths in 1934 Ca cancers can can- n- n cers of the intestines about deaths cancers of the uterus al almost al most cancers of the breast cancers of the skin cancers of the tongue 1056 a ai ad d cancers of the lip These are the organs chiefly a by cancer and these therefore therefore there there- I fore are the places which should I be most thoroughly studied by t the I I physician In relationship to t the possible appearance of this a dis dis- ease ca Especially should they be o studied in men and women pa past st middle age Among people over 40 years C Cage 01 of age one death in 13 among men and one death in every eigl eight among women is due to cancer |