Cancer

(kan’-ser). A malignant growth. The Finsen Light and X-ray treatment is now used with succe for certain of these cases, but operations are still nece ary, and then there is the risk of recurrence of the disease in a fresh part. Cancer takes three forms: Scirrhus or hard cancer, most common in the breast; encephaloid, or soft cancer, usually internal; epithelial cancer, most common in the lip. The district nurse has often to tend cancer patients; the treatment consists of extreme cleanline , and such methods of relieving pain as the physician orders. The smell of cancer is often very offensive.