Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1913 — ORGANIZE FIGHT ON CANCER [ARTICLE]

ORGANIZE FIGHT ON CANCER

Representatives of Medical Bodies Meet In New York City for * That Purpose. New York.—Permanent organization' of American physicians and laymen engaged in a nation-wide fight against cancer was effected at a gathering at which were represented most of the medical bodies identified with the congress of American physicians and surgeons. (' A campaign of education against the disease will be undertaken through written and spoken word in maga-, zines, training schools, women’s clubs and in other ways. Special attention will be given to teaching women the early symptoms of cancer. The members who attended Included committees appointed at the recent congress of American physicians and surgeons In Washington. The selection of a name for the new body was ’aft io the executive committee.