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Show THE Page Six Cancer is Childhoods Greatest Scrouge Seldom is cancer listed as one of the diseases of childhood along wfth measles and whooping cough, yet every year it kills more youngsters aged one to 15, than any other disease. The general conception is that cancer is an illness of middle and old age. Yet last year 3,600 boys and girls died ot it This year the child casualty list may well top 4,000. Not only does cancer lead the grim parade of deaths among children but the youthful are prone to the more lethal types of the disease cancer in sites that are difficult to discover and are equally difficult to treat. Recently, 'Memorial Hospital in New York, one of the contrys great centers for research and cancer treatment, reported on its experience with neoplasms in children. Cancer of the bone was listed as the most common form of the malignancy, closely followed by cancer of the blood (leukemia), then by tumors of the connective tissues fat, muscle or nerve, which usually expose their presence through lumps and swelling. More than not these lumps are benign, harmless. But parents cant afford to take a chance. Such lumps should be removed, says Memorial, even If the child has not complained of any pain or discomfort around the swelling. Glioma cancer cf the eyes, comes a poor fourth in this Memorial Hospital survey. Even this Treatment for cancer of the bone is early, radical surgery, treatments. supplemented by of because delays in the Partly diagnosis of bone cancer, the survival rate in children is distressingly low. But the condition if far from hopeless. The many cases that are cured are due mostly to early detection. In children the growth process is more vigorous and in cancer which Is unnatural g cells growth, those are off on a growing spree. The picture of a child with blood cancer Is a sombre one but not nearly as bleak as It once was. Leukemia once meant that death was just three months away because the white cells were growing crazily and crowding out the red ones. Even now there is no cure for the disease. But scientists are creeping up on the disease, lengthening the span of vigorous life, pushing back that death sentence. Leukemia victims are now treated with radioactive isotopes, with nitrogen mustard, with other chemical compounds that are prolonging life for months, even years, and permitting the child to live those months in perfect normal fashion. Last year at an ACS meeting, Dr. Mila Pierce, noted pediatrician of the University of Chicago, stole the show when she Introduced to the audience two children. Aged two and four and apparently in the best of health, they were kids to whom she had been able to give extra months of happy life as a result of work she had done through an ACS grant. One of the American Cancer Societys great works is sponsoring and financing research into all known forms of cancer whether It be in children or grownups. This year the ACS Is providing from Its funds, $5,536,522 for research by 900 scientists in 140 laboratories, hospitals and clinics. This year the Society is seeking $25,000,000 to carry on its three pronged attack on cancer through research, education and service. Suppose your child had cancer. Would there be enough money in the world to fight the disease then? But every dollar you con- - SUN-ADVOCA- Thursday, April 22, 1954 TE x-r- ay dreadful form of the malignancy is now sometimes cured. Take little Mark Seamons for instance. In Utah he has become the living symbol of the truth that cancer can be cured. Last year he was the hub, the focal figure of the ACS Crusade, in that state. Mark was only, three months old when Dr. Newell II. Battles removed both his eyes because they were cancerous and death was beating at the door. The operation was successful, as more and more such operations are nowadays. Now Mark is a healthy, active youngster playing with other kids on the street in the little town of Logan where he lives. He is building up a reputation as a musical genius, for although he has never seen a piano key, much less had a music lesson, he plays beautifully. He plays so well, that now, at six, he solos on radio and television. While cancer of the bone is less spectacular than that of the eye, it tends to be more serious, largely because, hidden beneath layers of muscle, flesh and skin, the malignancy takes much longer to manifest itself it gets a solid start. The tumors occur most often in the long bones, particularly in the forearm and the lower leg. It is insidious because so often no pain accompanies the onslaught in the early stages and too often, when pain does develop the parents dismiss it with: Just growing pains. death-dealin- The American Cancer Society consists of hundreds of local units diviorganized into 61 chartered that near one is you sions. There needs support during the . 1954 Cancer Crusade, the ACS says. First District Federation of Womens Clubs of Utah at the Mrs. Lela R. Banks of Pleas- spring convention held there. Mrs. ant Grove, mother of Mrs. J. F. Banks was a member of the comHeidenreich of Price, was elected mittee on arrangements for the first vice president of the Timpa- - three-da- y meeting last week end. Prominent Club Woman nogos Veterans who have been rated totally disabled for compensation, pension or insurance purposes for at least 20 years are not subject to reduced ratings under provisions of a new law, Veterans Administration has announced. The new law does not apply to where fraud is involved. Under Public Law 311, approved by the president on March 17, 1034, future physical examinations of these veterans with a rating of total disability or permanent total disability for more than 20 years will not be required. Previously, veterans who had total disability ratings based on disabilities other than blindness or anatomical losses could be reexamined with a possibility that their ratings might be reduced. This new law assures the few veterans affected, who have been rated totally disabled for 20 years or more, that they will not be deprived of benefits in their old age after they have been accustomed to rely on these benefits for the support of themselves and their dependents. However, the new law prevents the reduction of ratings for physical reasons, only. Veterans receiving pensions for permanent and total connected disabilities are still subject to Income limitations of $1400, without dependents, and $2700, with dependents, even though their ratings have been in effect for 20 years or more. non-servi- THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY SALE D.nrv.d I to Rlghl 1 limit Quanlili. r E 33 Corner Carbon and Main r PINT DOTTLE R PACKAGE OF 40 88:0 MI !ashiiiere Bouquet 3-- 23 " ce Choose Balls or Flakes 2T DOLPII FOR MOTHS tribute to the Utah Division, American Cancer Society, fights not only for your children but for the children of everyone everywhere. Can you afford NOT to give to the Cancer drive during April when it could mean prolonging your childs life? POUND Packs at lOe saving! Stock up today Latex 65' RUBBER GLOVES Test-Rit- e No-sli- p fingers . Ifefc1 10' DISH CLOTHS 2.orHC 7t In your size 1 Morgan-Jone- s OQ m . 17 APEX MOTH CAKE Hang it in closet. Efficient, clean. 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