Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-07-02 | Page 22 | Cancer's Curable Stage

I Cancers Cancer's Curable Stage I 1 The dread of cancer causes an untold amount of mental dis dis- tress With or without reason few women escape the fear at sometime some sometime sometime time in their lives Lately physicians have attempted to quiet this worry by spreading spreading spreading spread spread- ing certain exact information concerning the curable stage of cancer In its beginning cancer is a local disease Cutting out the tiny tumor lump hard spot or abnormal growth when it appears on the exterior of the body is a simple surgical problem and it cures in 80 per par cent of breast cancers 95 per cent of lip and 80 SO per pel cent of tongue bases according to the American Society for the tho Control of Cancer But an au operation cannot cure a blood disease and that is what a neglected cancer soon becomes The original seat of the cancer can b be cut out out but but once the cancer cell gets into the blood it circulates through the body breaks down sound tissue and amI produces any allY number number number num num- ber of abnormal growths It is a peculiarity of women that when they think they havo cancer symptoms symptom they usually conceal their thoughts If their fear proves true they endure their mental agony in silence until lentil finally physical suffering forces them to talk to the family doctor Then it itis itis itis is too late It n is just this kind of secretiveness and unnecessary m martyrdom which the physicians and nd sUl surgeons eons are now endeavoring to combat for it is concealment III in the first stages which makes so many cases of the disease incurable