As printed in the Bracebridge Examiner 1979 (Post humously by her request.)
Part 3 Cancer follows the line of least resistance.
Scientists have discovered in the tombs of the Pharoahs
that Cancer has plagued mankind for thousands of years. Millions have been
spent and are being spent yearly in treatment and research by our greatest
medical specialists to find the remedy to crush out its existence. Today,
the only remedies in general practice and recognised by the medical profession,
as the result of the above efforts, are surgery, radium, and deep x-ray
therapy. The disease, however, has spread and in spite of health measures
and publicity to point its cause in early treatment, it has steadily increased
until now it has become the second greatest cause of death in the world
today.
Statistics show that the alarming increase of this
readied menace is such that it is only a matter of time, when in the near
future, unless a breakthrough is found, it will be first on the mortality
list. It is quite apparent, therefore, that surgery, radium and deep x-ray
are not the answers. It does seem that ultimate success does not lie in
this direction. In fact, in this day of radioactive fall-out, they have
found that radium radiation is causing cancer, instead of curing it. True,
cancer taken in the early stages is being treated more or less successfully
in some cases by these remedies and a vast organised campaign is being
waged to bring the knowledge of this fact into every home in the land.
"See your Doctor for a check-up with a cheque" is their slogan.
"See your Doctor immediately if you have any reason
to suspect that you have the disease," is what they say.
Unfortunately, there are very few physicians who
can diagnose cancer, or very few symptoms to warn the individual or the
doctor, in the majority of cases. Especially in many internal afflictions
there are few, if any, noticeable symptoms and in the majority of these
cases, the disease is too well established or rooted before the doctor
or his patient even suspect its presence.
Cancer generally follows the line of least resistance
and does not cause pain or even inconvenience, in its early stages, until
it has invaded an organ or nerve centre. It may be slow in development
and in such cases is most deceptive and difficult to discover or feel.
It may develop rapidly and make itself felt early, when it can be fairly
easily diagnosed and treated. A slow-growing cancer may not bother a person
for years, until it affects a vital organ. In its rapid growth, however,
a few months of progress may make it too late for the surgeon's knife and
then deep x-ray therapy may only scatter it to other parts; while radium
Drives it in, instead of out and burns the surrounding tissue. I believe
that radium, used in too heavy doses, is the prolific cause of further
cancer in the destroyed burnt tissue.
Once the cancer gets into the glands to any extent,
medical science accepts defeat. In many cases, infected internal glands
cannot be treated by any of the above mentioned methods. The same applies
to all vital organs. If the affected part can, in its infancy, be cut out
by surgery before the malignancy starts shooting out its fine spider-web
like tentacles, a cure can and is sometimes affected. Once, however, the
cancer becomes active and starts to travel to any extent, as it does along
the line of least resistance, following its insidious relentless course,
any destructive agency applied to the human body can only do more harm.
The shock to the system may slow up its activity
and you can stop its course for a time, but the shock must of necessity
have a more deleterious effect on the human body. The body in its weakened
condition, is less able to resist the subsequent ravages and the more deeply
penetrating action of this Dreadful scourge, which soon makes itself felt
in rapid loss of weight and inevitable torture and gradual starvation.
Tt is reasonable to conclude that no destructive
agent can be successfully applied to eradicate a cancerous growth which
has more power in its wildly growing cells in a living organism and their
destructive ability, than the resistant ability of any organ in the human
body. The malignancy is born of some freak of nature which has reversed
the process of renewing wasting tissue and building up new healthy cells.
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