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Show CANCER RESEARCH BRINGING RESULTS AmoDg the Items of good news for the American home is a report of real progress toward the control of cancer, published by the Woman's Home Companion. "It has now been proved," says the report, "that as high as 90 per cent of those attacked by this disease can be saved If diagnosis Is made and treatment started soon enough. The problem has been to persuade people to go to the doctor or to the clinic and get the truth. Cancer is peculiarly peculi-arly a disease about which victims do not seem to want the truth." While researchers are striving to get at the basic cause of cancer, other oth-er devoted workers have been carrying carry-ing on a wide campaign to educate the public that sores which do not heal, and lumps, unusual discharges or persistent indigestion ought to be taken as warning signals. In one city a special drive brought to the clinic a great many persons, all of whom confessed that they had been worrying about cancer. Seventy-five per cent of them did not have cancer at all and they went away convinced and relieved. Of those who did show symptoms, fully one-half one-half were curable because they had found It out early. "Results like this," says the report, "show the enormous value of publicity pub-licity when directed to a constructive construc-tive end." |