Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET plan given to beat inroads of dredd dread disease makes all doctors offices cancer finding labs by BILLY ROSE mr alfred S black hattiesburg mississippi dear mr black A couple of months ago you dropped into see me and as the result of our meeting I 1 wrote a column ask asking in g for suggestions on how to best spend the left by your b rather brother to the black stevenson foundation to provide preventive and remedial treatment for cancer sufferers and I 1 was p plenty enty happy when you phoned a week after the piece appeared and told me you had received letters many from outstanding medical men and research organizations well this is letter no and if 11 your patience and eyes can take it id like to outline a startlingly unspectacular plan which may save the lives of cancer victims a year at a cost of less than 5 per life the idea and its a simple one was passed on to me by dr harold T hyman of new york billy rose itose the well known physician whose four volume in te tegra grated tea practice of medicine has been called the practitioners bible bibla by time magazine but b before e I 1 ease into dr hymans notion let me give you some soma of the reasons behind it IN THIS wealthiest of nations where we have more doctors per capita than anywhere else millions of people get periodic medical check seldom are they checked for cancer until something begins to hurt the reason according to dr hyman is that these examinations ami nations seldom include a survey tor for cancer even though this involves little more than a few and scrapings As I 1 get gel it from dr hyman a person has a 50 per cent chance ot of licking cancer if it is spotted in its ils incipient stages anil and treated by a competent physician bw but once the malignancy is far or enough along to cause pain and the associated cla ed symptoms the she odds against killing the mankiller man killer drop to 20 per cent celli which in my simple arithmetic means that 30 out of every cancer deaths can be prevented it if we find a way to make every doctors office in the country a cancer detection center heres where dr hymans notion and your brothers money come in why it be a good ide idea a for the black stevenson foundation to compile all the latest knowledge on cancer diagnosis in one hefty volume and then working through the various loci local medical societies see to it that a copy of this volume free of charge reaches the desk of every family doctor in the country and why it be a logical extension of this idea to follow up the book with supplements whenever the research labs come up with a worthwhile worth while advance in test or technique |