Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1914 — No Cure for Cancer Yet. [ARTICLE]

No Cure for Cancer Yet.

In his annual report Dr. E. F. Bashford, general superintendent of research in the laboratories of the imperial cancer research fund, told the members of the society that during the past year there had been 12 claims to the discovery of a cure for cancer. All of these had been investigated and no Justlficatloh for any one of these claims had been obtained. Doctor Bashford also said women were more liable to cancer than men. In England and Wales in 1910 the death rate from cancer was 856 per 1,000,000 for men and 1,070 for women. As the London Times says editorially in commenting upon this report: ‘‘The only reasonable expectation of curing cancer still rests upon its complete removal by the surgeon at the earliest possible time after it is discovered.” —Medical Record.