p. 15 | Cancer Increasing in France

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 3, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 38.

Cancer Increasing in France

A despatch from Paris, dated September 1, declares that every year thirty thousand persons die of cancer in France, and the number in Paris alone is four thousand. Instead of diminishing, the disease is constantly increasing. Usually it attacks only those over forty years of age, but nowadays it attacks many young people. It seems to attack all the organs of the body, whereas formerly it was limited to two or three at the utmost. The authority for this statement is Dr. Borrelle, in a communication to the Academy of Medicine. He declares that the disease is communicated in many cases through food.