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3) "First manifestation of malignancy is the occurrence of numerous pigmented growths in the skin about the primary mole. This represents the most malignant form. The onset is followed shortly by widespread metastases and death from visceral involvement."
X-rays and radium rarely have an effect in retarding the chainlike spread of black cancer, Dr. Frank Earl Adair of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital has found. Surgery is the only weapon, and then only as a prophylaxis.
Concluded Johns Hopkins' Dr. Affleck: "An important fact to note is that once a mole shows sufficient symptoms to cause a patient to consult a physician, it is already in an advanced stage and treatment, regardless of the type, rarely results in cure. The only hope for the present seems to lie in the removal of pigmented [moles] in their quiescent stage."