Summit County Bee and Park Record | 1960-04-14 | Cancer Society Seeking Funds

Cancer Society I Seeking Funds In connection with Its April educational and raising fund-raising Crusade the American Cancer I I Society has announced that there are one million Americans alive tOday who have been cured ot of all cancer Twenty years ago there were only J J J I But Dut there Is more to the story The Society considers ers cured only those alive and without t I evidence oC of the disease five years rol following owl g diagnosis and tr treat treat- I ment By this standard It Jt is that an additional cancer patients diagnosed I Ind and nd tr treated within the last lost five Ive I years will wilt live ll to enter the rank ranks of f those cured This means today to today to- to day there are actually I Imen men women and children cur cured d dof of cancer although although will not formally be lie counted until i r five years from the time of 01 treatment Twenty years ago only one out of ot seven who developed cane cancer can can- e fr r was saved Ten en years ago it it was one out of of four Today It Is one out of three It is estimated es estimated estimated es- es that Americans will be saved from concer cancer this year rear