As before remarked, it seems strange that the medical profession and the public have been so slow in accepting the views here presented. But both have become so obsessed with the idea that nothing can be done for cancer except operative procedure of some kind, and so dazzled with the glamour of modern surgery, so fascinated with the apparent definiteness of laboratory proceedings, and so attracted by the glory of purely scientific research, that it is very difficult for any other doctrines to make headway: moreover, any dietary or medical treatment, prophylactic or curative, is very tedious and also difficult, in the way of attention to minute details, etc., and patients weary of restrictions and are restless at seeing little or slow progress made. Haig found the same difficulty with Hospital patients, but does not hesitate to state that in private practice “some undoubted cases of cancer have gotten well” under his dietary restrictions. But when it is remembered that it is calculated that, under present existing conditions and treatment, fully 90 per cent. of those attacked with cancer ultimately die from it, and that there were last year nearly 50,000 recorded deaths from this cause in the “Registration area” of the United States, covering but two-thirds of its population, and that the disease is rapidly and surely increasing, it behooves the Medical Profession to put forth the best efforts possible to stay the progress of the disease. In New York City, according to the Weekly Bulletins of the Board of Health, there were from May to November, 1914, in 26 weeks, 2173 deaths from Cancer, Malignant Tumor, or an average of 83.5 per week, almost twelve deaths daily from malignant disease. Operative surgery has unquestionably been of great service in certain cases and along certain lines of cancer, and the claim for the earliest possible removal of morbid growths is certainly a just and proper one; moreover, with our present knowledge it is perhaps wise to attempt to remove the offending mass while there is some hope or prospect of benefit, and personally I am occasionally advising this in proper cases. X-ray and radium have also their sphere of usefulness in a certain class or group of cases, but the excessive exploitation of the latter, not long ago, did harm in raising false hopes in multitudes of sufferers, and as these were shattered so also was confidence shaken in regard to all help for cancer from other than surgical removal.