What precautions may be taken against cancer?
How to
Prevent Cancer
Q. What precautions may be taken against cancer?
Q. What precautions may be taken against cancer?
A. First of all, one should abstain from flesh foods,
since cancer is a disease of flesh eating men and animals. In addition the
following facts published by the International Journal of Surgery should
be kept constantly in mind, especially by women,
who are more subject to cancer than
are men :
1. "Cancer of the uterus commonly arises between
the ages of thirty and fifty.
2. "The normal change
of life is never marked by an increase in the menstrual flow. The loss
of blood, however slight, between menstrual
periods or after the establishment of the menopause,
is presumptive evidence of cancer and calls for an immediate, searching
examination.
3. "A watery discharge is almost as suggestive as
is hemorrhage when occurring late in life.
4. "Pain is a very unreliable guide and
does not occur until the disease has advanced
beyond the uterus, when it is too late to assure good results.
5. "Loss of flesh does
not usually occur until the disease has run half its course.
6. "Pelvic complaints of whatever nature arising late in life, should awaken a suspicion of a
possible cancer.
7. "Cancer of
the uterus may reach the inoperable stage without giving rise to a single
symptom, hence the advisability of submitting to an examination at
intervals during the period of life between thirty and fifty years, when the liability
of cancer is greatest.
8. "The only hope
for cure rests in early recognition and in early removal."