THE AVERAGE TREATMENT OF CANCER

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Abstract
Any one who has been interested in the effects of publicity on the control of cancer cannot help having noticed the various judgments, the differences of opinion, and often the incompleteness of the treatment offered the patients with cancer, once they have reported with the suspicious early lesion. Hence, when this brief survey of the treatment facilities available to the average cancer patient in the average community was suggested by the American Society for the Control of Cancer, it was undertaken with some interest. METHOD Twenty average cities were selected for which refined mortality rates were available. They ranged in population from 100,000 to 1,000,000. The statistics for these cities are shown in table 1. The inquiries were confined to general information about the hospitals, their policies and support, the equipment and procedures regarding the use of deep x-ray therapy and radium applications, and the surgical experience of some of

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