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WAR AGAINST CANCER
Oily John W. S. McCullough, M.D.,
Chief 'inspector of health,
Ontario.)
Thirty er forty years ago there
• were a -•few diseases which inspired de-
spair, if not terror, among the pub-
-sie. Of these, dinlltltcria, consump-
tion, and typhoid fever may be taken
as examples
IDi,phtheria.-4n my early days of
medical practice, in the early 90's,
diphtheria killed about one-half the
ease,. In this period there were about
11200 deaths a year from • diphtheria
in Ontario, or a rate of.157,5 per 1000
of population. 'l'here was no reliable
type of treatment in use. A new and
effective treatment arrived about that
time, with the result that the scourge
of diphtheria, a disease chiefly of
chilareti under ten years, has •be.conte
so effectually controlled that last
year there were but 111516 deaths from
this affection, and the- death -rate had
dropped front 57,5 of ,113835 to 4 per
'Ii1N00 of population. This "terror" of
,mothers has been removed.
Typhoid !Fever. in my daya as a
medical student, some 40 yearA ago,
and long after that time, the hospital
wards every autumn- were • literally
Miler with- Cases of typhoid fever.
The victim, of the disease were from
the strong adult population usually
there were a couple of burly •police-
men among them, end rhe• death -rate
was high. Typhoid fever is a self-
limited disease; it `tins its course ap-
pareu'tly uninfluenced by treatment
other than careful nursing.
In the South African \Var, more.
soldiers died from typhoid than from,
all.other causes put together, A gen-
eration or so ago the deatlhrate-front
typhoid was '50 to G0 per ,tlt(10 of pop-
n{atiou. To -day the rate is only one
or two, The other day 'I asked a
young doctor who was graduated in
111039, -HON., 'many cases of typhoid
fever• did you sec during your
'course?" "Just on 0," he aimsw"eredi
and teachers in the medical schools
tell'me that they can, scarcely !find en-
ough cases of typhoid to show to
•th•eir stridents, Forty years ago we
were ,pra•cideally ignorant of the
means
of 'preventing typhoid, .I'p-
clay it is readily prevented and has
become a .neglible tiffe'etion among u
!A generation ago there was gen-
eral despair in respect to consump-
tion, or tuberculosis: This disease
shows itself chiclfly among young
adults. The beautiful fair -hatred girl,
a keen student at l school, suddenly
develops 0 cough, a weariness, and
loss of appetite, •The doctor an-
nounces, "site has tuberculosis," The
anxious mother feels that the death
warrant of her beautiful daughter has-
been signed, But thaiaks to the com-
bined application of rest, good food,
milder lite and sunshioe, consumption
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usually checked and often cuffed:
so that the death -rate of 111115 per 11)0
thousand has been cut in half and to-
berculosis, ins'teacl of ranking second
in the list of "killing" diseases, now
occupies )fifth place.
Tuberculosis is prevented by the
use of 'better living quarters, the
avoidance of crowding, and other
general sanitary methods.
Millions Every Year
:After over .26 years of public health
work, I ant sometimes discourager)
with the slow progress made in the
control of disease When I recollect
that 31111 million: are 'pent in Canada
every year and that less than seven
mullions are spent in the prevetrtion
of sickness, d sometimes despair of
the eventual control of disease. But
the facts to which I have just refer-
red ;sive Inc comfort and I thank clod
and take coin -age, brat the future may
bring, is respect to other discanes, re-
sult,: similar to those gained in diph-
theria, typhoid and tuberculosis.
The preeent day clespair and terror
in respect to cancer it similar to the
despair and terror which 30 -or -10
tears ago existed in respect to diph-
theria. While there is today no perfect
cure for cancer, yet the measures for
the treatment of cancer are Infinitely
1,.',
ulwlcr to those for the treatment of
diphtheria before the year Ille95. While
there is 00 complete treatment of
cnneer, research into this affection t.
far more advanced and the prospects
for 0 cure infinitely better than the
corresponding prospect- for diph-
theria, typhoid and 'tuberculosis ford'
years ago.
The War Against Cancer
Au the campaign against cancer
many thing; 'must be considered,
such, for example, as centres for
treatment, delay in diagnosis, follow
tip of cases, methods of prevention
and research.
110 most of the countries of North
'America and in Europe, there are
centres for cancer treatment tvit'h well
equipped staffs of pathologists, physi-
cists, physicians and : ergeons, all
trained to carry on their worse with
the closest co-operation, Calker work
has become team work. It is no long-
er the work of the general practi-
tioner: it has ,become a highly spec-
ialized, branch of treatment.
' Delay in Diagnosis
fin every country there ,is a lenient -
oleic complaint complaint that most of the crises
of cancer curate too late for elfeetire
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A cruise that leaves the beaten track of world tour ships
L`-1. to explore the changing worlds of Africa and South
America has been planned by the Canadian Pacific for the
21,000 -ton liner Empress of Australia this winter.
In three months, 96 days to be exact, this great white
liner will circle the dark. continent of Africa via the Medi-
' terranean and the Indian Ocean, cross the South Atlantic,
calling at lonely Tristan da Cunha, to visit the South
el American continent and the West Indies. There are alto-
gether 26 ports In 22 different countries on the schedule
for this new Mediterranean -Africa -South America tour. i.,�■otieei�uxhisti
Departure will be from New York on January 18 and return
there on April 24. - Spanish M dement
os
Madeira, Gibraltar, Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Nice, Naples, B Argentinaa'
and Athens will be visited during the European part of
the cruise, then Palestine and Egypt. In Bast Africa the Empress of Australia's
cruise party will spend three days, visiting Mombasa in Kenya Colony, the Island
of Zanzibar and Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of Tanganyika. len route to Loreneo
Marques, Portuguese East Africa, a call will be made at Majunga Bay, on the
French island of Madagascar.
Two whole weeks are spent in South Africa, forming part of the experience
of the cruise party, which will reach Durban on Marcia 5. Calls at Durban and
Capetown are on the liner's schedule, but five optional excursions by special
Zulu Maiden trains will be made through the interior.
Victoria Falls, Tohannesburg, Pretoria, Bulawayo, Kimberley, the diamond mines and goldfields,
Pietermaritzburg, the Big Game Reserve and Kruger National Park are some of the highlights of
these excursions.
• The Western Hemisphere will be reached again on March 28, when the Empress docks at Buenos
Aires. Two days will be spent in this gay capital of the Argentine and a day at Montevideo, capital
of Uruguay. The coffee port of Santos; Sao Paulo, and beautiful Rio de ,Taneiro will be the Brazilian
place of interest visited, then the final ten days of the cruise will be spent in the Caribbean waters,
'calling at La Brea and Trinidad, Port of Spain, Kingston;Jamaica, and Havana,, Cuba,
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results in treatment. This situation is Under the microscope one can 01;-
being met abroad ley well-trained l serve the birth and growth of ` the
catnp:aigns of pi,blie education and Iby cancer cell, can see it spread, invade
')enter training of medical students and destroy the 'healthy tissues; one
and of those proposing to specialize can distinguish cancer cells front the
in cancer worlc. _ordinary tissue cells, and. olassi'1fca
!Another matter of importance is tion of the different types of cancer
the follow-up of cases, In every clinic and tumor growth can be made,
an elaborate record of cases should Ibe Cancer see,mos to be a local rebel -
taken to keep in touch with patients lion of a group of cells against the
and to bring them back to the place established rebelliousorice The cells
of treatment at intervals for years .un are unrestrained in their action; they
til all possibility ;of the return of the are `bolsheviots", and if the local riot
disease= is past, is not properly checked it may der -
Prevention itt cancer k as 'necessary elop so as to destroy life,
as prevention in other diseases. Much The cause of this untoward action
can be done in this direction by edu- on the part of the errant celt is un -
cation and by periodical examination known. Cancer is non-infectious; it is
of per ons after 35 years of age. not hereditary; it -it not introducers
Advance in Cancer Control from without; it is gen'era'ted within
During the lasscentury medicine the body., There is no tree germ 00
Ilan- won signal victories over many parasite to which the growth of can -
diseases. Most of the victories have cer can be ascribed. Cancer itself is a
been in camocction with .seem -caused parasite grafted upon 'the human or -
diseases. Cancer is a disease of -an- ganism upon which it acts in a des -
other category. Its actual cause is trttc'tut•e fashion.
unknown and it leaves a 110 per cent Cancer may be a combination of di-
toll upon adult humanity, it is no senses; Fifty years ago fever was a
respecter of ,persons. 'Never has the term used to cover a Targe variety oy
problem of the nature and cause of infections. The cause of most of these
cancer been more widely and scion- fevers having been. discovered, titer
tifically attacked than to -day. are now classified as typhus and ty-
Increase of Cancer phoid fever, pneumonia, malaria, etc.
be lit(lhMany physicians 'believe that cancer
canceTherer' is anseems theto increasehe, butcubt 11ptt10at is similarly a general term that may
the extent to which s'batietics point. cover a variety of disease., It is well
'There are a few reason; the total in- known that there are several types of
crease is apparent, cancer of the skin for example, and it
These are (1') the 'better retfords of may be that the light of future know -
to -clay, (12) the greater skill in ding- ledge will separate cancer into its
rolls, (3) the increase in the number component parts and aid in the solu-
of people of the cancerous age, (4) tion of its control.
the better edneatinit of the public in Pre -Cancerous Growths
preventive medicine of all kinds an addition t., the true cancer there
which enable: the layman and w,- are other form, of irregular growths
matt to appre'ciitte the earlier signs of known a. 'benign tumor'. '!'hese are
the disease.all more or less associated with mat-
!Speaking at Chicago recently, Dr, tenant or cancer tumors but are com-
ootlgo..:rid' uulolit Ptuatine!y harmless in themselves.
d131oesn'te,haved r`tile:110_\ ofhe.theitifince.vv\\'hraly? There are cell processes which pre-
13ecause with the first blemish on her cede true cancer and which are
face she Coes to a y;
,h ici:nl, That Is known as pre-caurtlo eroconditions,
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a valuable lesson for Wren to learn." These pre -cancerous reactiolis of tis -
\\'omen slunk`, dint they ' do not sue tall appear to 'be dile to the in -
develop `:`neer of the Month. The, llucnee of Sooty external irritant r of
`talion—the}' keep their teeth free of o 111e internal stimulus. Some of these
;l'rnw ills result 'i11 cancer. and most
nicotine That's another lesson for
their husbands and brothers,"
cancers develop from some such pri-
sorry overgrowth ,f cell.., Thee it ap-
Wait thele is after all thie, a real in -
pears that there is a aoagr in the life
crease 1n the incidence of cancer. If
w' takeo ,
history of 000050 w hcu the gr''wth,
We our own. `sorter alone, the
while a departure from the t mal, is
mortality from Lancer ha ell ow° t ,lot actually cancer. Examples of this
successive and steady rise over a
are seen in the pearly appearance of
ra-org period, one untst admit that the lip in snookers, in the white .spots
cancer 1' increasing;.
int the tongue or inside the cheek, or
S suppose run are not fond t stn- in the scaly accumulations of el,ider-
tistics, and T shall harden you with iris on the faces of elderly
r lily -sufficient y persons,
t to convince roll that •fhc;
c 000 not cancer; they are pre-
cancerousis alarming conditions which may and
ul7ecti';n, rale for
with 1tA1'F the irryuclltiy rlo, become cancerous,
mortality rate for caarcel ill Ontitr 1 The Origin and Cause of Cancer
was be per 11191,000 of population; h1 :As already pointed out, no real
1i929 the rate was 111(4, and last year cause of cancer has so far been iii:.-
-109.3, an increase of 54/.1 per '100,000
covered. 1111 the causes which we
1n a single year, know of are predisposing or exciting
!mein • tin last decal' the rate of tnllditions which appearto be related
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increase has been nearly -t) per alp,
to the origin of cancer. These inclsde:
thousand of population. For certain •1. iTereditary predispositions.
regions of the body the stomach, 0. _Ages
the intestines, and the female organs 3. Embryological faults
,f generation, the increase has beets
particularly marked and 1s in com- o r3'ioche.micad stimuli
partitive accord with that found in (. Diet and civilization
anost colrntries. The annual loss of 4. 1rritatiim--and injury
Heredity
life from cancer in Ontario has, in In both animals and men there are
the aggregate note reached 3,635 and those whose e'usce ltibili1 • ,
I y to cancer
the total number of rases cannot fall is stronger of weaker than fs the case
short of 110,001), with others, As in tuberculosis and
The newer sections of the country, slant' otltcr affections the tendency to
\llhcrta, \i an.itoba inti Saskatche- acquire the disease is higher in sante
age, have the lower rates, than in others. Such persons are rel-
atively more susceptible than other
,rhe records for England and \Vales persons. their reeistanre to the piu•ti-
.in.ce 11547, show all ever-increasing cuter affection is less, the soil is more
tide of cancer mortality, The Unit- favorable to the growth of the disease.
ed State,, and ip articularly the coati- 1'he. Hereditary predisposition to Sen-
tient of Europe, show an equal or cer is, like that of tuberculosis, the
greater increase, and all over the civ- .true conception, There is nn evidence
ilfzed world there is the highest in- that cancer is transferred from parent
forest in research as to the cause of to child,
cancer, and experiments in treatment Age
designed to control this mighty - 1,\ge is a definite factor in the onset
scourge: of cancer. \\thile malignant growths
The Nature of Cancer may originate at any age, the liability
The human body is composed of to cancer increases with the years of
millions of cells, cells that can be life. The 'work of preventive medicine
scow only when magnified about 500 has extended the length of life of the
times, when they appear to he Of .the individual. Through this extension
size of a small pin's head. -there is provided an additional mum,
In its simplest form the cell is a her af.potential cancer victims. 'The
spherical body with tt definite wall, n'e155r countries with a younger pope -
and semi-solid contents in the middle It tion have less cancer than. the nldee
of which is a smaller spherical body' civilizations. As. the population Ibe-
know-n as the nucleus earl dorm which comes of mere a lsamcecl age, the
the life of the whole cell depends. In mortality of Cancer increases.
its normal. life history the nucleus and Embryological Faults
subsequently the cell itself divides. The 4Itvtan 'bed}- is 0 con lex and
`l' -he cellsgrow to full size and are p
wonderful structure, Its elements are
rcadl' .to• dtvim their turn, Ti's all in
cess of fuitheritle dnisioll-depenalsa upopro-n structures there are "faults" in the
the product of a single cell.
a number of circ tem Stan cat many of ,body construction, and it is not un -
which are tnlcnaw'r,, but in part it
common for a. tumor to
depends 011 the nature of the cell. grow from
one of these faults, Only a few of
Taus the skin is constantly being re- such ,growths are don; ero us; most of
t.eweI .by division of the deepest lay- then) are innocent. The great can-
er or cell,, whereas nerve cells are cern off the 'body, as a rune, lake their
never renewed once they .haye been ,ruin frons :na.turecella salt now and
formed. Although cells typically are then one f
develops is r
r,f spherical f00111, they may, front ont ani citrnryniq-
i'rical fault.
nressure become flattened, columnar, Irritation and. Injury
polyhedral o1 irregnlal'�I It shape. It is not known how ireitatitln acts.
The cancer eell is a oct•mal'.ell of in exciting' the growth of (miter, I
the body, bol lot some l.tivlcnownn res- �lltet`e is no doubt that injury aroc(
A011 this cell titans, frpnl the of thin- chronic irritatliate of apart: tit ,'
ary'841)11, "olid not ondy d,0ide5'ibutflea 1
duce cancer, The surfacee of the body
continues to subdivide inil'eifiiiitely.
wall with fewer people of the cancer
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the chef sites of cancer. These re-
gions also arc the most subject to ir-
ritaaion, ''Many chemical and physical
agents are known to excite cancer. Ir.
citation is the contnl ttiest "cause" el
cancers of the harts of the body sub-
ject to injurious iuflucaces. knowl-
edge of this fact is of assistance in the
prevention of cancer, Avoidance of ir-
ritation or the reilto/al of irritating
agents are the 901501 measures in, the
reduction of cancer,
Biochemical Stimuli
The human body is a complex che-
mical laboratory. The growth of
glandular cancer, and perhaps of oth-
er terms, i, probably excited by tee
inofluence of tete chemical .processes of
the body. In this field research may
possibly uncover the real cause of,
cancer.
Diet and Civilization
.Since cancer occurs alike in veget-
arians.
eget-ari ins, in meat eaters, and in those
using a mixed diet, the kinds of food
consumed lees probably no effect In
originating cancer. No diet will pre-
dispose to, nor prcveut cancer 10r th.5
fntliwiival: Pitt the manner in which
hoed is used may cause irritation, ani
thus excite a malignant growCI,
Foods taken too hot, r'r bolted witlt-
ot11 proper mastication, may act as t.
titan t, nr cause ili(liges tii,lt, and :,
prevoke e cancer irf the stomiefh Or in-
testines. Ne, can civilization justly
be blamed for the induction of we-
cer. Certain civilized habits. higher
lift develepment and the greater •`.-
era a age of civilizatien 111110 account
,for the possible exec s of the carver
of civilized people over that of pri:tt-
't e people. . , , 1. 00
its if i e6unl}• imu r ..
to
diSoW11 the advantages of civilized
life and assume primitive habits, The
remedy ie ranter to gain control of
cancer by research and application .f
scientific knowledge,
The Growth and Spread of Cancer
As already indicated, cancer arseea
by the proliferation of its cells to .a
additional teener cell, and that can-
cer spreads through invasion of ad-
jacent tis.ue by the r tracer cells or
their dissemination thr,noill the ,y.n-
phaoic vessels and h1 ,l vessels t,
distant giants The spread of the ea.
iginal growth to other parts of ala
body is known as-utdtastasis r
great danger in cancer conte. ..em
this invasion, The rate of this inv5-
eion and the destructive elfeot of ti^
invading cells vary greatly in differ-
ent cancers and thus sante 0,1100e0 -
are much more dangerous than "iii-
ers, The time for successful action i5
linrtled Ditt,gnosis and treatment, 0'
be satisfactory, must he applied at oh*
earliest possible opportunity.
Destruction of a small cancer at i:.
beginning, or removal of irnitati,-tf
anti continued observation of pre-cae-
cerous state: would do much to limit
the mortality of this dangerous di-
sease. Cancer is at first a local'disease
and if removed in the early stage is
curable.
Decline and Death of Cancer
\ cancer is a living thing, and li1;r
all living things it cannot last forcee
Dr. 1) tui'- ',Arthur \\ elsh, 10.P L
Erbil., writes in a feseina'ting meaner
of this and other epochs of the life
hie't,,ry of cancer. Ile says:
\ few cancels reach the term ,0,1
their natural life before they kill the
patient }revery (loos` who has hard
much experience of cancer can recall
instance; where a cancer appear: to
have been checked in its nt:clegna+tt
career, where it has ceased to r ,a
and where it has `lied out. \\ tat
sometimes happens is this; the dictae
declares with truth that an advanced
canrer is hopelessly inopcaable, an.1
that lie can do no more: the patient it
desperation tries some quack remedy.
Then the incredible thing hap ens;
the cancer beg.itrs to die and the rt-
tien't begins to life again. Not one fit
110110 cancers, perhaps not one in 10,-
000' is so obliging as to die before its
'human host."
Mut the incredible fact has aappen-
0(1 through the cancer poiaessine a,
low- order of vitality or b:cattse of
the high resistance of the body, and.
this fact is encouraging in that re-
search may d1 inlet a me'uu of accel-
erating' the exhatis'tioso of cancer vital-
sty or of increasing'bodily resistance.' ,
to malignancy. •
Dottg'Ias' Egyptiafl Liniment is
quick, certain remedy. for'Hool Rot or
Thrush, ,Four or five applications
arc usually enough,
and the alimentary canal aa•e among Want and!Fpr Sale Ad's, 3 weeks SOn.,