EARLY DIAGNOSIS AND PROPER MANAGEMENT IN CERVICAL CANCER

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Abstract
The most definite fact known regarding cancer is that with modern methods of treatment a reasonable hope of cure is absolutely dependent on an early diagnosis. It is a source of great satisfaction that many thousands of men and women are living in the United States today who were treated for cancer more than five years ago. On the other side of the ledger is the depressing realization that these thousands represent scarcely one fourth of the total number treated. The explanation for this relatively small salvage lies principally in the fact that the majority of persons seek treatment only after the disease is well advanced. There can be no doubt of this explanation, for there is ample proof of the relative hopelessness of the disease when it is advanced and the good results obtainable when it is early, in the published reports of the world. By way of illustration,

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