Medicine: Cancer is Curable

Cancer is curable, the American College of Surgeons has decided. So certain are the surgeons of this that they used the phrase as the title of their most important symposium in St. Louis last week. Two dozen able surgeons stood up in meeting one after another and reported 8,836 onetime cases of cancer known to be cured. Most dramatic witness was Dr. Edward Loughborough Keyes, Cornell Medical School urologist. Cried he: "I am an example of the cure of cancer. Three cancers have been removed from my face by radium or actual...

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