The Organization of the Cancer Campaign in the United States of America

Abstract

THE honor of being permitted to present before this distinguished group of international medical experts the organization of the cancer campaign in the United States of America is deeply appreciated. There is, in all the world, probably no greater responsibility before the medical profession to-day than that of a solution, if humanly possible, of this most devastating disease of modern civilization. It is not a single problem nor a simple one. It demands, first, the education of those lethargic members of our own profession to awaken them into the realization of a duty which is so pertinently their own. Next, to intensify and amplify this education to a point that it may spread over onto the whole public at large in a manner which will remove the fear of cancer and encourage the seeking of assistance from medical advisors at a time when the disease can be scientifically and successfully subjugated. Thirdly, the nation's very government should be made to realize the highly important economic phase of this ...