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Show APRIL SCHEDULED FOR BATTLE UPON CANCER DISEASE By proclamation of President Harry S. Truman, and Utah's Governor J. Bracken Lee, April has been set aside in the state and nation as Cancer Control Month. It has been so designated designat-ed also by a nact of U. S. Congress, Con-gress, during which funds are raised for the American Cancer Society, which spearheads the fight on the dread disease. Mrs. J. A. Theobald of Price and Stephen J. Maloney of Salt Lake City have been named by Lane W. Adams, president of the Utah Division of the society, as fund chairman and state publicity public-ity chairman, respectively. Fund chairmen are named in each county, in addition to the county captain, who serves in educational educa-tional work thruout the year. Funds raised in the campaign, according to Mrs. Emil deNeuf, state commander for the American Amer-ican Cancer Society, are used for care and assistance of needy cancer patients, for education against the disease and maintenance main-tenance of free cancer detection clinics, and for research on a national scale to determine effective ef-fective methods of combatting the disease. In Utah the organization conducts con-ducts a continuing campaign of education on cancer symptoms since it has been proven that cancer is often curable when detected in the early stages, the percentage of fatality falling from 75 to about 15. To implement education on symptoms, symp-toms, detection centers are conducted con-ducted for those showing the symptoms, states Dr. Orin A. Ogilvie, medical service chairman chair-man of the Utah Division of the American Cancer Society. Statistics show that thruout the nation, one in eight die of cancer one person every four minutes. This national percentage percent-age is maintained in Utah as well as the nation, and in every community of the state. |