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

Cancer Society Seeking Funds I In connection with its April I educational and raising fund I Crusade the American Cancer I Society has announced that there are one million Americans alive I today who vho have been cured ot ol I cancer Twenty years ago there were only But there is more to the story I The fhe Society considers cured only those alive and without I evidence of or the disease five years following diagnosis and treat treat- ment By this standard it is that an additional cancer patients diagnosed and treated within the last five years will live to enter the ranks lit of those cured This means today today to to- day there are actually men cen women and children cured of ot cancer although will wUl not formally be counted until five years from the time of treatment Twenty years ago only one out of ot seven sc who developed cancer cancer can CM- was was saved Ten years ago it was one out of four Today It Is la one out of ot three It is es estimated estimated estimated es- es that Americans Americana will be saved from from concer cancer this I year