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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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