Show 1 NEW WEAPON AGAINST CANCER Latest development In Kentucky's Kentucky's Ken Ken- tucky's campaign against cancer Is acquisition of this mobile detection bus Dr Ellis Duncan medical director and nurse arc are shown here welcoming three thre girls referred to them for examination I ON HEALTH FRONT Mobile Detection Bus Bus' to Aid Kentucky's Fight on n Cancer Cancel Features tires The farmers farmer's wife with the lump in her breast the village store clerk whose voice has dwindled to hoarse a whisper whisper whisper-no no longer need they go without examination for months and live in the fear that they may have cancer A new weapon forged by the Kentucky division of American American American Amer Amer- I ican Cancer society with the aid of General Electric X-Ray X corporation has made mad it possible for people in outlying areas where doctors and ray x-ray facilities are few to receive first-class first medical examination examination nation for cancer without the cost and difficulty of traveling great dis dis- dis- dis This weapon Is the first mobile mobile mobile mo mo- bile cancer detection bus ever to be equipped with ray x-ray apparatus Modeled after buses now used for x-ray x surveys of apparently healthy persons In TB campaigns the cancer cancer cancer can can- bus known officially as the Cancer Mobile will c carry rry ray x-ray Into the ways by-ways of Kentucky acting as an extension arm of the states state's widespread network of 16 cancer clinics Aid Rural Areas The unit however will not be used for mass survey work as this would be economically Impossible But It will permit bringing detection facilities to thousands who otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise might succumb to the nations nation's No 2 killer I Primary purpose of the anItIs unit anIt Is to provide free tree examination for suspected cases among those i unable to pay In addition doctors doctors doctors doc doc- I tors who do not have x-ray x facilities facilities facilities fa fa- fa- fa also may use the apparatus apparatus apparatus in the bus for their private patients Kentucky physicians are supporting supportIng supporting support- support Ing the unit enthusiastically and have volunteered their services without charge for the examination of indigents The unit was purchased for the Kentucky cancer group by young women of the Louisville Junior league who also have offered to go out with the unit in teams to take case histories and assist in handling patients Only cost to the cancer society society society so so- is for services of the medical director Dr Ellis Duncan and his technician To Insure fullest utilization of the thebus thebus thebus bus and other diagnostic facilities the cancer organization has under underway underway underway way an intensive program of tion This Is designed to increase the publics public's awareness of warning symptoms and to stress the Importance importance importance tance of routine periodic medical examinations Stress Lay Education The bus will go only to counties which extend a formal Invitation through their county medical soci soci- After arrangements have been made to have the unit come to a particular county members of the medical society and other groups will be asked to volunteer assistance at the diagnostic clinic to be held inthe in inthe inthe the bus While the unit is In the county educational programs on cancer control will be presented to lay groups Acquisition of the bus Is the latest of many steps taken by Kentucky In Its battle against this dread disease The first state to have per cent organIzation organization organization organ organ- of all counties for fundraising fundraising fundraising fund- fund raising Kentucky also Is credIted credited credited cred cred- with sponsoring frequent cancer detection and treatment clinics and with promoting an educational program reaching down to grade school children Because of the large proportion of volunteer work done administrative tive costs of the Kentucky cancer program h have ave been held down to only 3 per cent The bus is of sturdy construction designed specifically for the complete com com- coverage of the st state te over roads of all types It is equipped with fluorescent lighting ventilating fan electric heater shockproof cables vibration dampers for the ray x-ray tube lined lead partitions to protect personnel against radiation work benches and water storage tanks |