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Show WOULD REDUCE CANCER DEATHS Campaign to Cut Total of 90,000 Victims a Year on This Week NEW YORK. Nov 13. National Cancer week, which was inaugurated last fall by the American Society for tho Control of Cancer with headquarters headquar-ters here, will be repeated this week, when over 10,000,000 citizens of the Tmlted States and Canada will be nuchrd with Informative Information jon this mysterious and dread dlseass. The society, a philanthropic organi-I organi-I zatlon embracing among its members I many of tho foremost physicians, surgeons and s li mists In this coun-.try, coun-.try, Is conducting a year-round campaign cam-paign in an effort to show tho average aver-age dtisen what tho early symptoms, or danger signals of the disease arc in order that persons afflicted may receive quick treatment and save their lives- Onco a year u drive Is made w ith far reaching r suits. The symp-toras symp-toras are easily r-cofrnlzed by the laymen. The society's message is one of hope. BARIiS KNOW LEDGE. While phyalclana may disagree on some matters they are of a mind in I the belief that the one real hope for a person afflicted with cancer is to obtain early knowledge of the fact and act at once. In the pr at m i- jority of cases the patient receiving and heodlnp an .irly warning Is Ctir d. Last year i'0.000 persons In the United" States met death through canci r. larpely becauso treatment began too late and the society Is bent on sav-in? sav-in? those with cancer now In an In- f.,.lnl cllf'i or nr.runni t n l-.ifrt come victims of the malady. The society, which is thorou.hly organized or-ganized in every Mate in the union and In Canada, has tho hearty coop- ration of state departments of health, American Red Cross, medical societies, labor unions, religious organizations, and men's and women's clubs. It is faced with the fact that from 19Q0 to 1020 1,200,000 residents of the United States died of cancer and that during this period tho death rate increased in-creased 32.4 per cent. It will reach the public through mass meetings, moving pictures, literature published in many languages, and newspaper and magazine publicity. In sonw titles placards will be used on the Btret ts and In stores. In practically all cities messages will be read from the pulpits. ii v R MAN PRESIDENT' , Among those actively engaged in this campaign are Dr. Robeit U Ore-enough, director of the Harvard cancer commission, Boston, Mass.; Dr. Harvey K. Oaylord, director of the New York Institute for tho Study of .Malignant Disease. Buffalo, N V.; 1 r Francis Carter Wood, director of the Institute of Cancer Research, Columbia Co-lumbia university, und Dr. James Swing, Sw-ing, professor of pathology at the Cornell Medical school. Dr. Charles A. Powers, of Denver. Colo , president of the society, believes be-lieves that a 10-year campaign will reduce mortality from cancer 20 per cent. |