Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cause. "Recent work tends to strengthen the truth that cancer is not due to a living agent comparable to those responsible for the infectious diseases, nor does it appear to be due to a cytotropic virus. These considerations should lead us to believe that cancer is not a communicable disease and this belief should be spread among physicians and the public...
...seems, on the other hand, that cancer is a disease of the cell, perhaps even of the cell nucleus which results from an intrinsic physical chemical disturbance, perhaps due to a chemical factor...
...Thus the two great morbid phenomena which attack the organism, inflammation and cancer, appear to us today from the biological point of view distinctly different, one from the other. And perhaps it is because we have mistakenly tried to bring them together that the majority of investigations on the origin of cancer have up to the present time resulted only in failure."-Gustav Roussy of Paris...
...Cancers of the lip, mouth, tongue and tonsil are due mainly to broken or sharp-edged and uneven teeth or to tobacco. Gastric cancer is generally traced to abuse of the stomach. Early and abrupt weaning is a frequent cause of mammary cancer. Altogether, these and other cancers are the result of known causes and can be prevented."-James Ewing of Manhattan. He added that no effective antiseptic has been discovered. He recommended gargling with plain soap and water...
...Cancer of the tongue is about eight times as frequent in men as in women. It is held by investigators of high standing in the cancer field that this difference could be wiped out if men could be induced to take as good care of their mouths as women do, avoiding irritation of all sorts, keeping their mouths clean, seeing that the teeth are in good condition, and in a variety of other ways. Similar methods, it is believed, could be applied to certain cancers in women, and that the present practice of removing from both sexes black moles, which...