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Show Cancer Drive Will Be Made Nect Monday "We hope to complete the drive for the Cancer Fund in one day, Monday April 16," said Chairman K. V. Adams Tuesday morning. He explained that all Ward Chairmen Chair-men and workers have been chosen and the briefing of soliciting personnel per-sonnel completed. Ward chairmen and a representative represent-ative group of the workers attended attend-ed a "Kickoff Meeting" at the Pleasant Grove Seminary Monday night. Mrs. Fawn Bailey, a Leuchemia patient for the past several months spoke to the group. She told of the sudden impact of the debilitating disease and the help she had received from the Cancer Center in Salt Lake City. "A year ago, I was a tired desopn-dent desopn-dent woman; but today I feel perfectly per-fectly normal" said Mrs. Bailey. She has just returned from an extended ex-tended vacation in California. Mrs. Beth Hall also spoke to the group. She praised highly the work now going forward at the Cancer Research Center of the University of Utah. Mrs. Hall made a plea for early recognition of the seven cancer symptoms and early diagnosis and treatment of the same. the showing of two films depicting the dangers of cancer and the importance im-portance of early medical attention. atten-tion. In answer to the question: How much has the American Cancer Association contributed to research to date ? Mr. Adams supplied the folowing information : In the last eleven years, $41,213,-000. $41,213,-000. This has supported 2,439 grants-in-aid, 352 institutional research re-search grants, and 501 scholarships scholar-ships and fellowships. Because of this research more has been learned learn-ed about cancer in those eleven years than in all previous history. |