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Show oo CANCER CURES CALLED FRAUDS New York. OcL 3. Dr. E. A. Bash-ford, Bash-ford, director of tho London imperial cancer research fund and the foremost fore-most EngliBb authority on cancer stated in an address before tho Amor-lean Amor-lean Pathological society h'oro last nhrht that "practically all of tho bo- called cures of cancer announced ' within th last fow yearn are worth- I less." ! Ho added that the only means of saving or prolonging tho life of a person afflicted with tho disease Is by operation. "Cancer kills one man In every seven," he said. "In one hundred families of six members each, equally equal-ly divided between tho sexes, about sixty-four,' or moro than 10 ier cent, will" die of cancer. It is an important causo of death from 35 years on, getting get-ting rapidly more so as age Increases. Caiicor Is now becoming moro frequent fre-quent In young persons. : oo |