Show it Marie L. Godfrey Cancer in U I nta h The Utah Cancer Registry has been maintaining records on cancer patients since I requested a com- puter printout of cancer information for Uintah Although the data is based on actual I have only numerical no Some groups in Utah appear to have no difficulty obtaining names and ad- dresses of cancer Many pa- find that has been discovered by who want to help with one special treatment or The American Cancer Society relies on requests from family or close friends of rather than records of hospitals or In addi- t once a patient is assisted by our service that patient's name and condition are kept strictly No information can be released without consent of the patient and the Imer Incidence Here Based on figures for the Uin- tah County would expect to have ap- proximately 57 new cases of cancer per The estimate extrapolated from Utah figures would be The actual number of cases has been an average of 28 per year for the past five years and per year for the eight previous The difference in the figures probably changes in portion more than susceptibility to County is half that of the U.S. but that isn't the true Using the data supplied by the I have found that of the cancers are distributed in a pattern just like that of the U.S. as a whole in the same These include cancers of the thyroid and Cancers of the lung and of the colon occur less frequently in Uintah County and in than in the nation in cancers of the prostate and of the lip and melanoma of the skin f the latter two occur more here than in the sUte as a Uintah County does have a slightly lower frequency of cancer of the body of the uterus than does Utah in Our k beautifully clear air is probably i the In allowing more ultraviolet to reach us and thus resulting in more cases of lip cancer and melanoma of the There some question about the relationship between sun and Since the majority of our state lives figures would be expected to be lower for the state in Smog blocks ultraviolet recent newspaper article suggests higher incidence of prostate cancer among but that study is still in its early stages and no causal factors have yet been Summary As an average resident of Uintah you are less likely to develop cancer of the lung or colon and more likely to have melanoma of Ue Males here arc more prone to cancers of the lip and prostate than are males in the U.S. For any other your chances are the same as Nola McNeill returned home tot week from Midland and Texas where she had been visiting her Clark is a flight instructor On her way she stopped and visited the T. Jay McNeill family In Rock o. |