Show Moab Physician Outlines I Cancer Progress Year This is Cancer C n nee r Progress Year proclaimed by the Amer Amerlean lean Cancer Society and the Ole National Na Cancer Institute What Whitt does dOE'S this mean meant That i ive We ve arc are celebrating progress Or Of Ofis OrIs Oris is it a bugle call to rally the nation against a l vicious killer The TIle Times Independent Mk asked Dr nr Rodney Rutt nutt to clarify these points The e answer Well we found It means both It Is a call caU to arms says saya Dr nr Rutt because we need all the help we can get get He lie explained That Tat means accelerated research re rev i search efforts to find new v cures i and extend medical efforts to save lives At the public level It I means Fight Cancer With a n Checkup and a Check by giving more than last year But nut another emphasis of Cancer Cancer Cancer Can Progress Year he went on onto onto onto to say Is to point up the real advances achieved against t cancer cancer can can- by medicine and science over the past 25 years ears It was vas Just 25 years ago that ago 1937 1937 that the American Cancer Society conducted con ducted Its first national education education tion and raL raising fund cru crusade ade and t the e National Cancer Institute Institute tute was established by act of Congress These Those two events have led to the present massive national national na nn na- na attack on cancer t the c greatest research assault ever mounted against any disease According to Dr Rutt there are arc two ways was in which this progress progress ress is measured In the number of lives saved saved more more than live today against In 1937 Dr Rutt pointed to these developments developments de de- de as directly attributed to research 1 the discovery of at least 20 drugs which h are effective effective tive In treating human cancers 2 the development of the Pap smear ar test which has made the early diagnosis of uterine uter uter- uterine ine cancer so feasible that al almost almost al al- most no one need to die of this type of cancer today Dr George died only this past week 3 vastly improved techniques tech tech- piques of surgery and super super- voltage radiation 4 the use of antibiotics and hormonal therapy as adjuncts to better and more effective treatment 5 the employment of radioactive radioactive radio radio- active isotope tracers for precisely precisely pre pre- locating tumors 6 the recognition of the lung cigarette-lung cancer relationship as showing the importance of environmental factors Th There have also been cant research advances ad he stated stated stat stat- ed which have given us a better belter understanding of the biochemical cal processes lS l'S of living cells With the Cancer Canter Crusade coming corning com corn ing In April 1 Dr Rutt appeals to all nil citizens of Grand Granel County to support rt this vital research at attack attack at at- tack with their voluntary con con- n In 1915 when the Canter Cancer Society Society So began Its research program pro- pro ram pram It allocated for forthe forthe forthe the first scientist noel and now It Is 12 times that amount But nut Dr Rutt Rust sa says in 1961 1001 the Society had to turn down some in grant applications simply because cause of or the lack of funds The ACS has devoted some rome to cancer research since 11 10 19 hill t is to train 1700 and eM a h. h tI Hilts a min g t W Dr nutt llulL However tro more money b be ben benee n nee wl l to train more scientists scientist to m meet t the enormous chall challenge of the Ue tan cancer lr problem he hI added add add- ed Let us lIS hope that our scientists end and our med medical AI men and anet Americans M everywhere re will combine combine com com- bine all nil of or the efforts effort and their resources to make Cancer Imre Pro Pro- gresa re YeAr an augury of hopeful things thin to come rome We Vc In Utah mah cannot afford to tobe tobe tobe be lax in our giving because c of or orthe the that comes back to Utah In grants to hospitals for research said Mid the doctor in conclusion |