Show n£jt HOW CURABLE IS ‘ 1 )M We can double the number of cures says this authority n Here’s a terrific challenge to Americans if you 1 1 Much co-opera- te! of the fear of cancer which is so widespread was bred into our thinking during the with negligible exceptions years when cancer was cancer has become a fact entirely incurable In the past two generations curable disease only in safe surgery and extensive with the advent of and radium machines powerful rays from y of happy thousands In spite of the fact that women (and children) all normally active men and around us are living proof that cancer the false belief that a many people still ding to of death diagnosis of cancer is a sentence interThe statement that cancer is curable needs it is not pretation and qualification " for - unhappily true that all cancer is curable The question theiy of the becomes “How curable is it?" The heart disease answer lies in the fact that cancer is not one one from diseases differing of but a great family another in location in symptoms and most imporwhich tant of all in behavior (or biological activity) in the patient determines their course X-ra- f I tI 4 ii 1 Activity Even for any given kind of cancer — like cancer of the breast — there are a number of varieties Dgn with different degrees of activity This explains a tumor why some women with one type may ignore before having it until it b the size of a baseball is a kind it — because removed and still be cured which grows locally and seldom spreads to other others parts of the body And it explains why discovthough seeking treatment immediately after are found ering a tumor no bigger than a marble to have the disease already spread to tire glands in the armpit to the lungs or to the spine has Obviously the fact of whether a cancer whether spread to other organs determines largely is proto is spread or not it curable Tendency so that — much so cancer of kinds in some nounced treated are it hardly matters how early they But the commonest carreer of all — the basal ecu kh cancer — never spends b fids way Most cancers of most organs Ire somewhere in between these two extremes of growth — tire wild ones which defy any kind of treatment no matter how early it is given and the docile ones which although growing tend to “stay put” Most tumors grow celt breaks locally for a time and then sometimes a the body of away and is carried to another part where a second cancer is established i v I f i ? H 5 Euly TiMtaml there is no reliable means of determining when this spread of cancer will take place In jact it is impossible to tell whether it has taken place until of course the colony cancers grow large examinaenough to be felt or seen (often by y the of spread likelihood Since in the general tion) the time of with the increases cancer passage of treatment guiding principle of cancer control today is Now 9 I B X-ra- tAMnruui! MM U KttKIXI oHoch dpWl toner wHW harming noanding orw a choir rvohm at the earliest possible moment And these facts support this principle Cancer Tibia W—k Mmgmtimm— Mmy IS 24 ISS |