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Show Briton Sees Great Advance in Battle to Defeat Cancer New York. A "great advance ad-vance in the struggle against cancer" was reported by Dr. W. Cramer, of the Imperial Cancer Research fund, London, Lon-don, to the American Journal of Cancer here. This is the fact that the increase in cancer during the last 20 years, in England at least, is almost all in the age groups over 65 years. This is true for cancer of the organs or-gans most frequently attacked by cancer, such as the tongue, esophagus, esopha-gus, stomach, intestines, liver and pancreas in men, and the uterus in women. The only exception is in the case of breast cancer in women. Here there is a significant increase even in the earlier age groups. "To the average person and his relatives," Dr. Cramer points out in reporting this encouraging advance ad-vance in the fight against cancer, "the question of importance is not whether he dies from cancer or some other disease, but at what age he dies from any disease whatever." what-ever." The increase in cancer mortality is not so frightening when it is realized re-alized that cancer is not killing any more people before they have approached ap-proached the Biblical span of life than it did 20 years or more ago. |