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It is shown that in many cases the disease had reached such an advanced
stage when the patient first sought medical aid as to be beyond radical treatment,
and it is suggested that this is due to the absence of early symptoms
of cancer in certain sites.
In a foreword to the Report Sir George Newman writes as follows : —
"Whether adequate diagnostic and therapeutic facilities exist in a given
area is ascertainable by local enquiries; whether patients take full advantage
of the available facilities and at more hopeful stages of the disease, are largelv
matters of common sense and a health conscience. A judicious combination
of effort in the two directions, local investigation and advice to the community,
should be exercised by local authorities willing to play their part in
the effort to postpone death and prevent disability due to this disease".