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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 8, 83-86, Copyright © 1958 by American Cancer Society

The Role of the General Practitioner in the Diagnosis of Early Cancer

Proper education of the lay public to the importance of yearly complete physical checkups must be followed by a more alert medical profession primarily concerned with the early diagnosis of incipient cancer. The modern family physician is the logical "detective" in this program. He has at his command all of the simple essential diagnostic tools for visualizing fifty per cent of cancers. Through prompt referral to specialized fields when indicated he can complete the diagnosis in almost one hundred per cent of cases. Uniform standards for such a physical checkup for cancer can be developed with the focal point being the office of the family physician. Only then will the survival rate from cancer be altered for the better.