Show 11 I IJ H I I I I 1 1 The Boys I Column 1 1 r r I I t tHo Ho SPRING WINDING SOMEBODY IS going around through spring winding things up Beneath the stars heifers let out to the first green hills o re bars bawl awl their Joy to the P pasture Someone has wound the young frogs up the water-meadows water all night long longare longare longare with silver sUver crying brighter are morning than than the growing moon And song music boxes with wound-up wound of birds throats shake opening lilac c blooms for Somebody is going around t through h r o 0 u ugh g h Spring winding up hearts In Ino su sunrise Frances Frost o o o C. CANCER CElt IN CHILDREN CANCER IS childhoods childhood's greatest scour scour- age seldom e Is cancer listed as one of the diseases of childhood along with measles I and whooping cough yet every year It kills more youngsters aged one to 15 ia than any other disease The general conception conception con con- Is Ls that cancer Is an Illness Ulness con I of middle and old age Yet last year boys and girls died of It This year the I child casualty list may well top Not only does cancer lead the grim I parade of death among children but the youthful are prone to the more lethal In sites that types type of the disease disease cancer cancer j are re difficult to discover and equally dif dif- I to treat I Recently Memorial Hospital In New NewYork I of the country's great centers York one I I for research and cancer treatment reported reported reported re- re ported on Its experience with In children Cancer of the bone was I form of the listed as the most common malignancy closely followed by cancer I of the blood leukemia then by tumors tumors tumors tum tum- ors of the connective tissues tissues fat fat muscle 1 or nerve ne which usually expose their I presence through lumps and swelling More often than not these lumps are benign harmless But parents cant can't af afford I of-I ford to take a chance Such lumps should be removed says Memorial even though the child has not complained of J any pain or discomfort around the swelling I cancer cancer of the eyes comes a I poor fourth In this Memorial Hospital survey Even en this dreadful form of the I malignancy Is 18 now sometimes cured Take little Mark Seamons for Instance In Utah he has become the living symbol symbol symbol sym sym- I bol of the truth that cancer can be cured Last year he was WIlS the hub the focal figure of the ACS Crusade In that state Mark was only three months old when Dr Newell H. H Battles Battles' removed d both his eyes because they were cancerous and death was beating at the door The operation was successful as more and more such operations are nowadays Now Mark Is a healthy active youngster playing with other kids on the street In the little town of Logan where he he I lives He Is building up a reputation asa as asa asa a musical genius for although he has I never ne seen a piano key much less had a music lesson he plays plaS beautifully He i plays so well that now at six he solos I on radio and television While cancer of of the bone Is less spectacular than that of the eye It its I tends to be more serious largely because be because because be- be cause hidden beneath layers of muscle flesh and skin the malignancy takes much longer to manifest Itself Itself Itself-It it gets a solid soUd start The tumors occur most often In n the long bones particularly in inthe inthe I the forearm and the lower leg It Is Insidious In in- In- In because so often no pain accompanies accompanies the onslaught In the early I stages and too often when pain does develop the parents dismiss Jt it with Just growIng growing growing grow grow- ing pains Treatment for cancer of the bone Is I early radical surgery supplemented by X-ra X ray X-ray treatments Partly because of delays delays delays de de- I lays in the diagnosis of bone cancer the survival rate in children is distressingly low But the condition Is far from hope hope- less The many cases that are cured are due mostly to early detection In children children children chil chil- dren the growth process Is more vigorous and In cancer which Is unnatural growth those death-dealing death cells are off of on a growing spree The picture of a child with blood cancer Is a sombre one one but but not nearly as bleak as it once was Leukemia once meant that death was Just three months away because the white blood cells were growing crazily and crowding out the red ones Even now there is 18 no cure for forthe forthe the disease But scientists are creeping up on the disease lengthening the span of vigorous life pushing back that death sentence Leukemia victims are now treated with radioactive isotopes with nitrogen mustards with other chemical compounds that are prolonging life for months even years and permitting the child chUd to live those months In perfectly normal fash fashion on Last year at an ACS meeting Dr Mila Pierce PIerc noted pediatrician of the University University University sity of Chicago stole the show when she introduced to the audience two children I Aged two and four and apparently In Continued on Page Six I The Continued n ln Boys Boy's from Column Pare Pace One n I II the best of ot health they were kids to I whom she had been able to give extra months of happy life lite as a result of work she had done through an ACS grant One of the American Cancer Society's great works is 15 sponsoring and financing research into all known forms of cancer whether it be in children or grown This year the ACS Is pr providing from its funds for tor research by scientists in laboratories hospitals I and clinics This year the Society Is is' is seeking to carry carryon on Its three- three pronged attack on cancer through re research research research re- re search education and service Suppose your child had cancer Would there be enough money In the world to I fight tight the disease then But every dollar you contribute to the Utah Division I II I American Cancer Society fights tights not I I I I only for your children children but but for the t I children of everyone e everywhere Can CanI I you you afford not to give to the Cancer CancerI I I I f drive during April when It could mean prolonging your childs child's I life ute |