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Show Cancer Society Notes Progress During Year The past year has been continued progress toward the American Cancer Society's Soci-ety's goal of eliminating cancer can-cer in our lifetime, according to the 1975-76 annual report of the society's Utah Division. Copies of the annual report are available on request from the American Cancer Society, Utah Division, 610 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84102, phone 322-0431. The report lists the Division's Divi-sion's accomplishments during dur-ing the year, which included a new record, $405,554, raised by more than 20,000 volunteers volun-teers in the society's annual crusade. Dr. Gerald P. Stevenson, Ste-venson, Utah Division President, Presi-dent, said next year's goal is $450,000. Dr. Stevenson said Utah is fortunate in that the total dollar amount coming into the state to fund research projects pro-jects is more than the last year's complete crusade income. in-come. Eight ACS Research and Clinical Investigation Grants totalling $520,529 are currently in effect in Utah. But the Cancer Society's greatest effectiveness, Dr. Stevenson said, is in programs pro-grams of education to help eliminate easily preventable cancer - the biggest such cause being cigarette smoke. Also, he said, more public education programs are needed need-ed to help stop wasteful expenditure in unproven methods of cancer treatment. Cancer Society public education edu-cation programs reached a total of 71,527 youth and 46,138 adults during the year, according to the annual report re-port The Cancer Society also played a key role in passage of the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act. Dr. Stevenson said continued con-tinued efforts will be made to encourage enforcement of the act. Approximately 1,000 doctors, doc-tors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists pharm-acists and medical students were reached through 31 professional pro-fessional education programs during the year. In the area of service and rehabilitation, direct di-rect financial assistance of $27,208 was given to 386 patients, and others were assisted as-sisted with information and counseling, including Reach to Recover visits to 156 mastectomy mastec-tomy patients, Ostomy Association Asso-ciation visits to 117 patients, and aid to seven new laryngectomy laryn-gectomy patients. National TV spots were aired 1,580 times, and daily and weekly newspapers ran 1,053 articles on Cancer Society Soci-ety activities. Virginia Whitney Clinics continued to be highly successful suc-cessful with more than 2,500 men and women receiving free cancer examinations in 18 clinics held throughout Utah by volunteer doctors and nurses. nur-ses. More than $8,000 was raised in the annual Virginia Whitney Golf Contest which helps fund the clinics. Ten Virginia Whitney Clinics Clin-ics are scheduled for 1976-77. Three have already been held, in Park City, Richfield and Sandy, with a total of 612 persons examined. Clinics will be held Jan. 15 in Parowan; Feb. 5 in Layton; Feb. 19 in Moroni; March 12 in Coalville; May 14 in Randolph; Ran-dolph; June 4 in Manila, and in August at Brigham Young University, Provo. Activities of the Cancer Society will be carried on under the direction of a new Executive Vice President, Mi- chael D. Murdock. Former Executive Vice President Clark N. Stohl is retiring effective Dec. 31. |