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Show 1 MANKIND'S SECOND GREATEST KILLER April is Cancer Control montli in Utak and in the nation. na-tion. Yet in April 14.400 persons in the nation, one every j minutes, were doomed to die of cancer. That means 70 persons per-sons in Utah -more than 2 each day. According to the present rate of 1 in 8, nea rly 80,000 persons in Utah now living liv-ing will die of cancer. The fight on cancer in Utah, headed by Mrs. Emil de Neuf, field commander for the Utah division of the Ameri can Cancer Society, is accented during April. Free cancer detection examinations in Provo have Leen put on a monthly basis. The examinations are held monthly in Ogden and periodically in Price, L0gan, Brigham City and St. George. Dressings are distributed and sick-room supplies loaned to home patients. Thousands of pieces of literature warning of symptoms of cancer have been distributed. dis-tributed. J The fight has been all out. Utah has received $40.- 625 in grants for research on cancer, and $70,000 will be spent in the state during the year to fight it. That is $20,000 i more than Utah's quota of $50,000 in the annual cancer 1 fund drive now underway. County cancer units operate in every Utah county except Rich and Daggett, and local drives are bei ng conducted in connection with the state campaign. I However, those who have not been contacted but wish to contribute may mail their contribution to the American Cancer Can-cer Society, Atlas building, Salt Lake City, and it will be credited to the county from which it comes. No cause for cancer has yet been discovered, hence the research work. There is no preventative for the disease. However, although moderately advanced xancer can be cured only on an average of 26 (cures vary with the location) loca-tion) if the cancer is discovered in its early stages, it can be cured an average of 74. That is why cancer detection examinations are held throughout the state. This saving of human life is worth the small expenditure of funds. |