Word: cancer
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Other societies working along the same lines include the American Association for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer (121 East 60th Street, New York City; Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley, president; Dr. Paul Luttinger, secretary-treasurer) and the Cancer Research Fund (Baltimore; Mrs. E. H. Bloodgood, treasurer...
Definition. Cancer is one of three types of tumor growing in the epithelium, that is, the cellular tissue which covers the body's free-surfaces, and lines tubes and cavities. One of these three types grows in finger-like processes or ridges. It is called papilloma and is benign. Also benign is adenoma, which lines gland-like depressions or cavities in the tissue structure. Under certain conditions papilloma and adenoma may infiltrate into healthy tissues and sometimes displace them. Here they resemble in effect the third epithelial tumor type-carcinoma, or cancer...
Cause. There is positively no one cause for cancer definitely agreed upon by reputable medical men, a fact which Dr. James Ewing of the New York Cancer Hospital phrased neatly last week before the American Society for the Control of Cancer: "Cancer is not a single disease but a great collection of many very diverse diseases of very different causation. There is not one cause of cancer. We find that in a great majority of cases rather definite concrete factors bring about the development, and that is summed up in the words 'chronic irritation of a great variety...
Recent Theories. Virus. Virus, of many forms, appears in every cancer patient and vitiates his blood, upsets the biochemistry homologous to the normal for the species, so that the organism cannot repair the damage done to the locale of infection or irritation. In consequence, cells (which with normal, healthy blood food would take their normally diverse form peculiar to the local tissue) stop their growth at a primitive, atavistic stage. Such primitive cells may lie dormant while the blood is able to counteract the virus. But eventually the virus predominates in the blood and the primitive cells effloresce into cancer...
Indicator. Dr. Botelho's test for the presence of cancer has been so far developed that last week the French Academy of Medicine announced that it has been perfected. Its principle is similar to that of the Wassermann test. If it detects cancer in the early stages, the Botelho indicator test will be of incalculable benefit, for one or another of the recognized cancer treatments can stop the spread of the disease when applied to early stages...