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...Breast Cancer. About one-tenth of all cancers occur in the breast. Although mammary cancer is a preventable, curable disease, only one-fifth of the victims are saved. Reason: if not caught in time, the cancer spreads to shoulders and lungs...
...Ewing firmly believes that all adults should have frequent medical examinations, so that young cancers, especially those of breast and skin, can be nipped in the bud. "Yet there are no early symptoms in cancer of the esophagus, stomach, rectum, intestines, pancreas, kidney, lungs, and other internal organs. ... In such cases . . . which constitute 65% of all cancers . . . little or nothing can be expected from curative medicine under any circumstances...
Main causes of breast cancer are chronic mastitis (inflammation), and stagnation of milk or other secretions. Somehow breast cancer is related to high-speed ovaries, and latest statistics show that it may be more common in women who do not nurse their children. If a little cancerous node is detected early, it can be easily removed and the disease checked. But in advanced cases the breast must be amputated, all the lymph glands leading to the shoulder and arm must be carefully tied off or removed...
Despite delicate new surgical techniques, said Drs. Livingston and Pack, operations for advanced breast cancer are no more successful today than they were 20 years ago. In fact, the death rate has doubled...
...series of consecutive cases of bone sarcoma is showing that the prognosis of this group of tumors is not as bad as most people seem to believe. Dr. Grantly W. Taylor has been studying on the results obtained in a series of cases of cancer of the breast in which an artificial menopause was induced as a therapeutic measure...