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Show Cancer Checkups Are Still Only Hope Cancer will claim the lives of thousands of Americans this year. Despite progress made, the American Cancer Society and cancer specialists stress the necessity of educating the public to the fact that early cancer is curable. WHAT scientists would iike to discover is a single key test which would simply and surely detect the disease, such as the blood test used to detect syphilis. But no such test is yet available. And some forms of the disease are almost incurable. incura-ble. Because the cause is not yet thoroughly understood, cancer checkups are the only sensible precautions one can take. These checkups usually result in early discovery of the disease when it can be cured. |