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Show aw o explains 1 7 STATEMENT ON ! CANCER aa yat, any dlrsct appllpatlom lo human aubjacta. t: Mayo. In hla talk to hla suff. said that tha cur of eanoar da-panda da-panda on diagnoaia and ram oral at I ha aarllaat poaalbla tlraa. In soma minntr, tha laity muat ba taught to una Bra land thaaa truths. K-arianc-a In tha Maya ellnla has baan that 71 par sant of pattsnta o pa rat ad on for easneor whan I ha diaaaaa Is still tor ah sad. that l. haa not astandad bayond tha primary pri-mary focua, ars curad by oparatl jo, and tha larga majority of tha remainder re-mainder greatly benefited, and many hava bean eurad avan whan tha diaaaaa had extended bayond tha Drtmarr focus. Rochester Surgeon Says .; f No Medicine Cen Cure Growth j HoH K8TI.lt, Minn, ftapt. ft t By a. ) ) At a mealing of tha ( general stsff of tha Mayo clinic, i held frw days ago. Dr. W. J. J fn referred to racant nawapapar I oninient an his remarks mads f wl'li regard to ths preeent atatua I iif tha anrr problem, quoting him 1 1 n declaring. In au hit a nee, that J ihera waa no euro Jr cancer. In J the rouraa of a lecture in l-ondon, f In July lr. Mayo aald: "Thar la a. nn m , !- I rm tnm Mni-r " In Burg teal operation ts tha nly method of removal to ba serloualy ronaldarad. Dr. Mayo continued, hecauee It parmita removal, with tha growth, of surrounding .iaeues and glanda that msy hava bacoms Involved In tha diaaaaa. Ths X-ray. radium and other agents hava a field af ueefulnaas tn connection with surgery, but a patient ahoutd not ba subjected to X-ray. radium or other slinfiar treatment without with-out careful aurglcai consultation since. If such aganta ara used whila ths dlsaass la still local, and1 fall to ours, tha resultant tlasus 1 changes daisy dependable euraM-ral euraM-ral operation and may parhapa prevent pre-vent It. Radiotherapy and other j other words, no medicine taken In- tarnally will cur th dtaaaa. Con- V Mnulng, h aald that a great deal of cx)erlmental work waa In pro- l r In sl parts of ths world, all f whkh gradually was sddlng lm portent knowledge concerning this n aerlous dlaeaae, but, unfortunately, invcatlgatlona. whlrh hav 1 hern hiada on anlmala, have not. treatment in ths hands or untrained un-trained per anna, or thoss whoae knowledge Is limited to one type of treatment, do an anormous mount of hsrm. Tracking knowledge, knowl-edge, the practitioners ara" not abla to differentiate snd apply ths method whlrh sxperlenca would show to ha ths beet method suited to tha Individual patient Dr. Mayo now permits thess statementa to ba mads public In ths hope of correcting an unfortunate unfortu-nate impression which haa boen apraad bv manv newspapers In this country. Hlfico his return from tlreat rRltaln hs hss had an anormous number of letters from Jteraona suffering from cancer, the attars containing clippings from newspapers In alt parts of the I nlted States purporting; to auots him as saying Thsro la no cur fnr csnrsr." without refsrancs u hi baatc statement that surgical removal doe euro ths d teases. What lr. Mayo actually aaid was, Thro is no medical euro for cancer.'' |