Medicine: Mobilizing for Cancer

Two well-handled events last week publicized the medical profession's decision that to reduce cancer mortality* the public must be taught to go to a doctor the instant some physical abnormality appears, and that doctors must be taught to recognize the early stages of cancer. If cancer is caught at its initial appearance it can usually be cured by surgery or radium.

At Baltimore, Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood, clinical professor of surgery and director of the Garvan Experimental Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University,! presided over a three-day conference of...

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