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For this intent the U. S. has its American Society for the Control of Cancer (founded 1913). The League of Nations has a Cancer Commission under its Health Organization. Great Britain has a Cancer Committee of its Ministry of Health. The British Empire has a Cancer Campaign. There are an Association Française pour I'Etude du Cancer, a Komite fur Krebs-forschung, and similar bodies in Japan, Belgium, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland. Besides teaching public and profession to recognize Cancer, these organizations also promote Cancer research.
Campaigners against Cancer try to avoid scaring the public about Cancer. They feel there is already enough hysteria on the subject. Clarence Cook Little, who since his resignation as University of Michigan's president directs both the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory (heredity & cancer) at Bar Harbor, Me., and the American Society for the Control of Cancer, remarks in Cancer: "By the publication of quack cancer 'cures' and the premature, unintelligent and overenthusiastic publicity on many 'new treatments' the press has built up unfounded hopes to be followed by a bad mental reaction in thousands and tens of thousands of people. . . . The better journals are not so much to blame."
Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times intends to devote the first six pages of his paper to Cancer news, when a Cure for Cancer is discovered — no matter if the U. S. is being defeated in a war!
What the Public Can Do is to go promptly, fearlessly to a doctor with the first sign of what might be Cancer. Such signs include: any unusual lump in the flesh, especially in the breast; any persistent sore; any queer acting mole, wart or other skin peculiarity; any dribble of blood from the mouth or other body openings.
As for doctors, the educators urge them to be alert for early signs of Cancer. Prefessor Ewing's Ncoplastic Diseases, which codifies all information accepted as reliable up to 1928, is the outstanding reference book for doctors.
Then there is Cancer, published this month, a tribute to Professor Ewing by his eminent fellows in North America and Europe.
Cancer is a supplement to Neoplastic Diseases. It contains four sections: Cancer in its General Relations, Cancer Research, Regional Cancer, Radium and Roentgen Ray Therapy of Cancer.
Contributors to Cancer include:
In America: William James Mayo, Howard Atwood Kelly, John Miller Turpin Finney, George Washington Crile, Joseph Colt Bloodgood, Dean DeWitt Lewis, Maude Slye, Aldred Scott Warthin, George Edward Pfahler, Evarts Ambrose Graham, Dallas Burton Phemister.
In England: William Sampson Handley, Walter Sydney Lazarus-Barlow, Sir George Lenthal Cheatle, Sir Charles Gordon-Watson.
In France: Claudius Regaud, Gustave Roussy, Antoine Lacassagne.
In Sweden: James Heyman.
In Italy: Raffaele Bastianelli.
In Germany: Ferdinand Blumenthal, Hermann L. Wintz, Otto Warburg.
In The Netherlands: H. T. Deelman.
In Belgium: J. Maisin.