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Show Fight With Knowledge The national drive to "fight cancer can-cer with knowledge" is one of the most humanitarian movements conceivable. con-ceivable. Last year 150,000 people In the United States and 450 people in Utah died from the dreaded disease. dis-ease. In the next five years the death rate from cancer will have decreased decreas-ed from 35 to 50 per cent as a result re-sult of this educational campaign. While lecturing before a group of women recently, a Utah physician physi-cian said that he thought eighty per cent of cancer is curable if taken tak-en in time. The American Society for the Control of Cancer has, since 1913, been assisting the medical profession pro-fession to raise standards in the treatment of cancer, encouragln research and stimulating lay education. edu-cation. "Recently a local physician spoke to a Parent-Teachers group on cancer. can-cer. At only a small percentage of Bulletin readers were In attendance at the meeting the following facts of interest are repeated: Cancer strikes at young and old, at both sexes Indiscrimlnatlng, but with particular savagery at women, yet physicians say that types of cancer that do hit women hardest may, in a great majority of cases be cured if taken in time. Thes symptoms are danger signals; (1) Any persistent lump or thickening. thick-ening. (2) Any irregular bleeding or discharge from any body opening. " (3) Any sore that does not heal-particularly heal-particularly about tongue, mouth or lips. (4) Persistant indigestion . (5) Sudden changes In form or rate of growth, of mole or wart Intelligent attention to these danger dan-ger signals, and prompt treatment by a competent physician or surgeon sur-geon will reduce the danger of cancer. |