Show CANCER RESEARCH BRINGING RESULTS among the items of good news for the american home Is a report of real progress toward the control of cancer published by the womans comans nonie home companion it h has as now been proved 11 says the report that as high as 00 per cent of those attacked by this disease can be saved it if diagnosis Is made and started soon goon enough the problem has been to persuade people to go to the doctor or to the clinic and get the truth cancer Is peculiarly 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 devoted workers have bate been carrying on a wide campaign to educate the public that sores which do tot not heal beat 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 seven ty ove 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 were curable because they had found it out early results like this says the report ashow show the enormous value of publicity when nhen directed to a constructive end |