THE CANCER SCOURGE.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17169, 28 March 1927, Page 2

THE CANCER SCOURGE.

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I IGNORANCE MANKIND'S ENEMY. j 1 ■

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i Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m. ! NEW YORK, March 25. i Doctor George Soper, Director of ; i the American Society for the Con- j i trol of Cancer, addressing that hody j | at Chicago, said over a million lives j | had heen taken by cancer in the : ! last ten years. There were three J | hundred thousand suffer ers from j i the disease in the United States, and | cancer had advanced from sixth to j fourth place among the leading j causes of death. He added that the • reason why cancer had advanced j on the list of f atal diseases was due partly to the conquest of other diseases, but the great tragedy was in the fact that many deaths from cancer were preventable. It was only necessary for the public to learn aibout the disease arid avoid thej charlatans. Ignorance was cancer's foremost ally. Their organisation was engaged in raising an educational campaign fund of a million dollars, Three or four thousand had already been subseribed,