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Show Park Cily Committee Prepares for Cancer Fund-Raising Drive ing behind it is very clear .Today, .To-day, without learning one new thing from the research lalxir-atories lalxir-atories our physicians have the knowledge that could save 108,-000 108,-000 more cancer patients each This April the American Cancer Society's annual educational ed-ucational and fund-raising Crusade is expressed in a great wish- We Want to Wipe Out Cancer in Your Lifetime." Behind that wish will lie a lot of hard work and our local pilots will lie Mrs. Nell Thompson and Mrs. llortense I-Tey, appointed ap-pointed co-chair men ol the Park City Area ACS Crusade. "We'll try to make that wish come true in two ways," Mrs. Thompson explained, 'First, we'll lie asking our friends and neighbors and families and absolute ab-solute strangers to have annual health checkups including important im-portant cancer tests; then, our volunteers will ask people to fight cancer with whatever they can afford, so that the American Amer-ican Cancer Society's vital programs pro-grams of research, education and service to the cancer patient, pat-ient, can continue and expand. People in the Park City area will be in line for some of the 45 million copies of the Society's Soc-iety's .1073 leaflet, "Annual Checkup It's a Lifesaver." This pocket-sized item includes a handy checklist to remind people of the ingredients of a checkup and an appointment menu blank to remind people to have that checkup. "That's our plan of action," Mrs. Thompson, Crusade Chairman said, "and the think- year. But early and prompt treatment are the only way to achieve that goal." According to doctors thousands thou-sands of American women will die this year because they refuse re-fuse or neglect or forget or put off havin g a simple, painless Pap test for cancer of the uterine cervic. "Both men and women will die needlessly Ijecausethey will fail to have a "procto", a test for colon and rectal cancer, a very common form of cancer that is treatable and highly curable if caugtit early." "That's why the Crusade is 'educational' and since our Park City version is part of a national nation-al effort, we hope to reach huge numbers of people. And we have shining examples to tell them about because there are 1,500,000 Americans alive today, to-day, cured of cancer." The ACS believes that it is what people don't know about cancer that can hurt them. "So many forms of cancer are curablethat's cur-ablethat's the hopeful side of this Crusade," she said, "that and the wonderful quality of our research scientists. Cancer research re-search today is so exciting, so ever-changing, that this is the time for the greatest support we can give it and I hope that everyone every-one in the Park City area will share this great work. |