Show Research Attacks Cancer For the last dozen years the American Cancer Society has been mounting a massive massive massive mas mas- sive research assault against the cruelest crudest killer of all time Several thousand scientists have been recruited and trained for the battle against cancer Fantastic equipment designed to measure minute chemical and physical changes in cells and tissues has been designed designed designed de de- signed built and distributed to hundreds of laboratories New laboratories have been constructed to house the men and I the tho machines m And now the attack is on It is by far the most extensive and expensive war ever over conducted against a single disease It is also one of the most varied and imaginative approaches ever attempted to control any tragedy of mankind It embraces embraces embraces em em- braces dozens of disciplines in Science cytologists to seek the subtle structural differences between normal and cancer cells biochemists to l learn arn where normal I Icell cell and body chemistry goes awry in cancer cancer can can- immunologists to try to learn what constitutes natural to disease and to try to turn that resistor e against cancer and many ninny other highly specialized types o of oj scientists All All this has been made possible by public contributions to the American Cancer Cancer Cancer Can Can- Society These have risen from a total of or in 1913 1943 to more than last year It represents a decided change in both public and scientific opinion opinion opinion ion on the question of whether cancer cancer can be beaten A dozen years ago we lived inan in inan inan an atmosphere of despair where cancer was concerned many of the best informed inform inform- ed sources in the field felt that cancer never would be controlled Today many scientists feel that the conquest st of cancer is only a matter of time although few will venture to speculate as to how much time Of one thin thing we are aro sure the war against cancer should and must be sup sup- ported We Wo recommend that you ou send your contribution now to the American Cancer Society or give freely to the tho volunteer who will call on you during the tho big Cancer drive being conducted in our community in the very near noor future |