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Show i i" ' mum in. mum mi ihwiiiiih wm fjumnwn .i inn"" iwwa mm if r m : ' ' ' 'I F C-, ' 'mi (: C- f ' f I V , 1 iff 1 ill CANCR FACTS. Dr. Lindsay R. Cur-tis, Cur-tis, in charge of Professional Education Educa-tion for the Utah Division of the American Am-erican Cancer Society discusses facts . with Cedar City volunteers, Mrs. Kimball Kim-ball Weaver and Mrs. Bud Riddle. Dr. Curtis met with leaders in meeting here this past week. Cedar Cancer group hears report be used in these clinics. Through this venture $15,000 has been raised. "This money is spent only for equipment; all work is volunteer," emphasized em-phasized Dr. Curtis. "There will be 52 million people who will contact cancer can-cer and two out of three of those will die. Fifty percent of those 52 million could be saved through education alone." - This statement was made Feb. 24 by Dr. Lindsay R. Curtis, who is in charge of Professional Education for the Utah Division , of the American Ameri-can Cancer Society, when he met with some of the local Cancer committee members in Cedar. Dr. Curtis added that 106 thousand people will die unnecessarily un-necessarily this year alone. One of the programs used by the Cancer Society to help prevent these unnecessary deaths is the Virginia Whit-ney Whit-ney Clinics periodically sponsored spon-sored throughout Utah. The clinics are staffed by volunteers volun-teers and held in cooperation with the local physicians. Dr. t Curtis said that the main pur- i pose of these clinics is to,j, reach women who do not reg- J j ularly visit a doctor. Dr. Curtis stated that 619 . lives may have been saved last year among the 7,000 wo- . men examined in Utah by the Virginia Whitney Clinics. Of the 7,000 examined 2 were found to have cancer or a suspicion of cancer. It was found that another 10 had other treatable conditions. Twenty five percent of these women hadn't had a physical in three years and 37 hadn't had a pap smear in three years. However, 38 had had a pap smear in the past year and 67 had had one in the past three years. ' During the past three years, Virginia Whitney Golf Tournaments Tour-naments have been held to ; raisa money for equipment to |