CANCER RESEARCH
, DIET AND SMOKING A belief that cancer can be cured surgically if tackled in its earlier stages is the chief point in a. review of cancer in America and Canada, published by- Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, the eminent United States authority, in the fourth preliminary report of the San Francisco Cancer Survey. The survey deals with the cases of 35,000 people who have died from cancer, and Dr. IToffman, after carefully investigating the contributory causes in all the deaths, says: “It is my firm belief that probably one-third of the cancer deaths could easily have been prevented if treatment had been more prompt.
“An extended study of the cancer situation in Mexico,” says Dr. Hoffman, “was entirely negative, and suggestive of the fact that cancer is extremely rare among populations not living in close contact or under the identical conditions of civilised populations.” Dr. Hoffman concludes with the statement that his investigations indicate that the results will show the “profound influence of an excessive diet of either meat or sugar, or both, and the direct relation of excessive smoking habits in cancer of the throat.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 214, 29 November 1927, Page 15
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187CANCER RESEARCH Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 214, 29 November 1927, Page 15
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