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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...
Skin Cancer. Most skin cancer could be prevented. All moles, warts, cysts, burn scars, chronic infections and irritations "should be regarded with suspicion." Exposure to sunshine is a hazard only if it continues day in, day out, year after year, as in the case of farmers and sailors. Best protection against skin cancer: "soap, water and scrubbing...
...Dudley is an "all-arounder" whose thoroughness is not pedantic, whose energy succumbs to neither red tape nor his chronic arthritis. He is also a good bluffer when occasion demands. With precious few rounds of ammunition on his economy-stripped ships, when he was chief of staff to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1935 he cheekily told the Italians where to head...
...would seem," concluded Dr. Alvarez, "that true chronic appendicitis, instead of being regarded as the commonest intra-abdominal disease, should be thought of as one of the rarest...
...Mayor went on to make a plea for the continuation and extension of government social services, and vigorously opposed wage-cutting and scaling down of unemployment relief. He urged the establishment of uniform taxes and labor standards, the continuation of public works to alleviate chronic unemployment, and the shortening of the working week to put more men to work...