Show cancer causes remain mystery cry to researchers by DR JAMES JAME S VV IV BARTON RS BANTING and best D DRS the toronto cesear research ch physicians have given insulin in su to tile the world and thus saved or prolonged the lives of diabetic child if E ALT 1 I r c n n and n d adults di diabetes abe COLUMN was formerly I 1 an incur incurable able disease similarly drs minot mino t and murphy boston showed that liver ando later liver extract would prevent death in the ilia 1 wonderful formerly pernicious with within these anemia incurable achievements two the last 10 to 15 years it was confidently expected by ro research and practicing physicians that tha t the cause of cancer would soon be bc dis dr barton covered and another fatal disease conquered despite the great expenditure of time and money throughout the civilized world the cause of cancer rema remains ins un unknown cnown now there Is really no known cure for diabetes or per pernicious niclous onemia anemia yet these diseases aro are being conquered by prolonging lives tor for several years by the use of insulin and liver respectively we should therefore in justice to cancer research workers appreciate the tha fact that it discovered early cancer can be actually cured by the use of tho the knife X rays and radium instead of waiting for a sore or a lump to de develop celop to the point where there Is no doubt of it being a cancer what is called a biopsy is now made this is the examination of a piece of the suspected tissue under the microscope biopsy sore test the canadian medical association in its handbook on cancer says biopsy is a most useful procedure ond and the only means of making certain that the growth is cancer it certainly illustrates the great team work in hospitals now to see the pathologist take a small piece of tissue from the operating room at once to the laboratory tor for microscopic examination the outlook for cancer of the lip Is extraordinarily good over 75 per cent of all cases without selection may be cured the importance of recognizing cancer early and giving immediate treatment is shown by by the fact that less than 2 per cent of the cases treated early die of the disease whereas 60 per cent of neglected patients die of cancer of course the I 1 lip ip is easily get at able but in early cases of cancer of the tongue and the inside of the cheek the result of treatment by surgery and radium gives 60 per cent of cures exercise needed for good health one of the expressions we heard as youngsters when an individual was constantly complaining about his aches pains stIfT stiffness ness or other conditions was it if hed stir his stumps hed have no stiffness aches or pains the thought was that it was lack of desire to work or play plain laziness that was responsible for his symptoms it if any symptoms were present today as we see men and women well past their three score yea years rs and ten walking about stirring th their cir stumps it is not hard h ard to understand why they keep free of symptoms and live so long it is exercise this walking about that not only keeps their legs and feet supple but keeps their heart strong and their blood vessels elastic most of us do not realize that just to walk about at an ordinary gait calls upon the heart to pump about five times as much blood as when we are at complete rest theory fully tested some soma idea of how any simple ex any stirring of our stumps helps tho the circulation of the whole body can be seen in a report by drs W J shaw and C E B rick ards manchester in journal of obstetrics and gynaecology Gyna ecology following ing operation it sometimes happens happe ns that hat a litte plug or clot embolus will get detached and plug or completely nil fill a small blood vessel thus shutting off the blood supply to a part with serious consequences if in brain or heart this may be caused by poor circulation and other conditions drs shaw and rick ards found that in one hospital where the same surgeon same operations erat crat orations ions same treatments were given without simple exel exercise ciSe after operation the number of cases of embolus or plugging of the blood vessels was ive five times as many as in the other hospital whore where the exercises were given the exe exercises raises given were simply lifting arms high over their heads a few times and t then h en lying on their backs drawing legs begs up to the body and straighten ing them again pick iek or well except perhaps in acute heart disease a little exercise can be of great benefit to til us iR leasel by western newspaper union 1 |