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I began to dig a bit deeper into the facts. I wished to know — as does everyone — what cancer is, how it is caused, how it can be prevented and how it is treated.
It was at one of the Field Army regional meetings that the answers to these questions were supplied for me.
To better understand the nature of the work done by the Field Army, it might be well at this point to explain the function of that body of volunteer workers. It is a body of more than 500,000 enlisted volunteer workers spread throughout the nation. By means of medical lectures, informative literature, exhibits, radio talks, newspaper and magazine publicity, cancer facts are made available to the public.
At one of these meetings, the guest
speaker was Dr. Clarence C. Little, Chairman of the Society's Committee on Education and a world renowned geneticist. The subject of his talk that afternoon was "The Nature of Cancer." Speaking in simple, non-medical terms Dr. Little unfolded the mysteries of that scourge known as cancer.
"Man's growth," Dr. Little revealed, "is regulated by a natural process which begins when the female cell is split by the male cell. When the splitting of the female cell occurs it multiplies into two cells. These two cells then multiply into four and so on, until human life in the form of a child takes place. This process of growth and multiplication of cells continues until adult life is reached. At that point — adulthood — all further cell growth is
stopped by a natural process. From then on new cells are permitted to grow only when body tissue repairs are needed.
"Just so long as the body tissues remain under this 'natural control,' there is normal cellular function. In some persons, however, one or more body cells rebel against this control. For some reason as yet unexplained, they seem to go crazy and begin to multiply when all other cells in the body are responding to normal control.
"By running wild these cells produce a lump or growth which has no useful function in the body," added the doctor. "If this growth does not invade nearby organs so as to interfere with their normal functions, it does not become dangerous. It is what medical men (Continued on page 99)
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