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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charlatanry. Although cancer is an exceedingly serious disease with a stupendous death rate, yet if it is discovered in its very early stages, it can be cured, at least death prevented, in the great majority of cases. Any suspicious lump should be called to the physician's attention at once. He has authentic knowledge of what can be done by medicaments, surgery, xray, radium, colloidal lead (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...CANCER CAN BE CURED The Dread Disease Yields to Dietary Methods are Treatment, and Triumphant - Less Non-Surgical Than Forty Per Cent Deaths as Compared with Ninety Per Cent in Operative Methods - Sufferers at Last May Escape the Gory Knives of the Obstinate, Archaic Blood-Letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...twisting facts and dragging in famed medical names, which he otherwise sneers at, he gives the impression to his misty-minded readers that "correct" diet will cure cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

Specific Studies. At the Dallas A.M.A. convention two informative papers on cancer were read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

Lungs. The lungs have become the seventh most frequent locale for cancer. (First is the stomach; second the uterus; third the breast.) The lung type has often been mistaken for tuberculosis or other diseases. The mistake is excusable, for the symptoms of cancer, which may be nodular, infiltrating and diffuse or miliary, resemble in some respects those of acute and chronic tuberculosis, fibroid phthisis, fibroid pleurisy, unresolved pneumonia, syphilis of the lungs, mucoses of the lungs, bronchiectasis, interlobar empyema, abscess of the lungs and enlargements and tumors common to the mediastinum. Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

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