Cancer Increasing in France

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 7, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 43.

Cancer Increasing in France

A despatch from Paris, September 1, based on statements presented before the Academy by Dr. Borrell, states that every year thirty thousand persons die of cancer in France, and that in Paris alone the figures number four thousand. Instead of diminishing, cases of cancer are increasing. Formerly the age of attack was usually over forty; now many young people of twenty-five and thirty are affected. Formerly cancer was limited to two or three portions of the body, such as the face and breast, but now it attacks all the organs of the body. Dr. Borrell thinks it is due to a cancer worm which lays its eggs in foods which are eaten.