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Show CANCER CAMPAIGN SET FOR APRIL A campaign to raise $12 million for an organized attack on cancer, can-cer, the second most formidable natural killer of mankind, has been launched by the American Cancer Society and Pres. Truman has designated the month of April as Cancer Control Month. It is pointed out that forty percent per-cent of the money raised will go to the national program while sixty percent will be used for local lo-cal programs of education, service and research. The fact that cancer can-cer kills 175,000 Americans every year, or one each three minutes, and that the disease took the lives of 607,000 Americans during the war, as comparel with the 294,000 dead or missing in combat, illustrates illus-trates the necessity for some concerted con-certed campaign. The national chairman of the campaign, Eric A. Johnston, says the American people should understand un-derstand that 30 to 50 percent of all cancer cases can be cured, on the basis of present-day knowledge, know-ledge, if the disease is established in its early stages. Surgery and radiation, or a combination of the two, effects a cure of at least 30 percent of the cancer cases that are detected in the early curable stage. He points out, however, that even when people seek aid at the first sign of cancer, they cannot can-not tie saved "unless there are adequate ad-equate facilities for diagnosis and treatment." |