HAVE YOU CANCER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4804, 30 January 1925, Page 4

HAVE YOU CANCER.

EARLY SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE.

PERMANENT IMMUNITY.

“Cancer is not, as everyone supposes, a disease from which there is no escape. Cancer is a local disease in the first instance ; and it remains local, sometimes for short and sometimes for long periods ; but if thou operated upon, the disease can be completely eradicated. An early operatior. on any cancerous disease may confidently be expected to confer permanei.t immunity from its return.” Sir Berkeley Moynihan, the most famous authority upon this dread disease in an interview, thus holds out a new hope for humanity. And the president of the Board of Health (Dr. Dick) declared that any pronouncement by Sir Berkeley Moynihan carries tremendous weight in the profession

Cancer, therefore, is a disease that if diagnosed and attended to in the incipient stages, can be completely eradiacted, and the patient can confidently expect permanent immunity from its return.

Cancer, however, can only be cured if the symptoms are diagnosed in its incipient stages. Once we know the early symptoms .we need net fear, A simpls operation will eradicate the malignant growth ; that is all.

“It is the duty of the medical profession,” says this authority “to enlighten the public regarding the early symptoms.” What, then, are the symptoms ?

’ Most diseases are notified by the patient feeling a pain, which promptly sends him to a medical man for diagnosis. Cancer, however, does not always announce, itself by-pain in the early, stages of the disease. Because the firsti symptoms of cancer may b& unaccompanied by pain, or any symptom of ill-health, the patient naturally things that nothing serious is the matter : and thus allosw the disease to progress, perhaps to a stage when cure is impossible.

There is only one. cure for cancer.

That is the early and complete removal of the cancerous growth, however apparently trivial. If the first symptcmis are neglected and the 'cause not immediately removed cancer is fatal in almost eve'ry instance. SIGNS OF CANCER. These are the definite signs of cancer. Have you got any of them ? If so go at once to a medical man 01 the nearest hospital. The trouble may not be cancer at all—better make sure. If you are a woman over 30 years of age -and find any swelling in your breast A large proportion of such swellings are cancerous, but can be cured by removal. If you experience any excessive 01 irregular bleeding occurring at the change of life, especially if accompanied by an offensive discharge. That may mean commencing cancel.

If you have any bleeding or offensive discharge, however trivial, occurring after the change of life: That frequently means curable cancer. If you neglect those symptoms'till pain occurs it means cancer; which is almost always incurable. If you have any wart or persistent sore occurring spontaneously on your lower lip after being over 40. That is almost certainly cancerous. Get ’t removed at once. If, .after 40 years of age, you find bleeding from the bowels, which perhaps you regard as piles. A proportion o’ such cases is cancerous, but at this stage perfectly curable. If you are an elderly person, and have any warts, moles, or other growths on the skin which are exposed to irritation, Don’t neglect them, or they may terminate in cancer.

If you set up irritation of the tongue and cheeks by broken, jagged teeth, or the lower lip by clay pipes, these irritations may terminate in cancer. These are the danger signals that every individual can recognise at once GET IT SEEN TO., The first step is to consult a medical man, not a quack, or visit a hospital. And be quick about it-Kiancer

is a disease in a hurry. Perhaps you suffer from a slight, non-painful swelling, or buy of the other symptoms mentioned. It doesn’t really worry you, but. there is a dreadful thought in your mind—mightn’t it be cancer ? You know, or ought to know', that the proper thing its immediately to go to the hospital or see the doctor. • But you have an exaggerated fear of the surgeon’s knife. You put the visit off. You conjure up visions -of fearful operations. Later on, perhaps. But there is no later on with cancer. Now or never 1 And after all, if you are prompt enough about it, you undergo a simple little operation that leaves hardly a scar, and you’ve escaped. Despite all the deep X-ray therapeutics, it is the skilled surgeon’s knife that extirpates the deadly, malignant growth.

How casual people are about cancer, despite their very real fear of it, often exaggerated, is known by every medical man. Dr. Dick fervently worried about cancer, though theie is no need, as has been shown, foi any scare. “There aren’t enough people worrying about cancqr,” he said. “I see people on the trams and in the streets suffering from various forms of malignant growths. Why do these ■people allow that growth to go on ? Why don’t they go to the hospital or their doctor about it ? The plain fact is that the majority of these people don’t bother, and when they are forced to by the rapid progress of the disease they come too late. Cancer is a disease in a hurry, but if caught young it is almost always curable.” Have you any of the plain signs of cancer ? Then hurry I