Show i The Cancer Crusade Is On Your P CANCER WITH A CHECKUP AND A CHECK Within the past several months there have been a number of major cancer operations in Duchesne some have not some are as yet In a critical and undetermined In the past month there have been two deaths of former residents of the county one of stomach the other of All mentioned were adults over 56 of acre a When this dread disease strikes so closely to our and never knowing where It will strike It Is timi that each nf should do something about it In the way that we ran help We owe It to our we owe It ourselves to fight It first with a checkup to lw sure that we are free from the seven danger If vc can do something- before it is too then we should follow up with a check to speed up the research program which is making- it through to save more people from cancer each Records show that in one in four was saved from in one in three was It can be one in two the Society Remarkable progress In cancer control in recent years has made more urgent the need to step up the attack on the disease that will strike some Americans now alive If present rates The American Cancer Society made this statement in connection with its April educational and fund-raising citing three reasons for pressing the attack on cancer with vastly increased There Is a feeling of urgency in the research community that is new and unique a feeling that science is geared to move ahead as never At present an additional lives could be saved from cancer if available knowledge rind techniques were applied by This would result in a substantial reduction of the who now die each year of In addition to distressing personal and family the disease has become an Increasing economic burden on the The Society estimates that in 1959 some employed men and women will die of An estimated new cases will occur in the labor force of tho Lost wages will amount to about this The total economic burden will be some billion in lost goods and says the there is a set of encouraging facts to balance against heavy As a result of progress in control of there are some persons In the United States today who have been cured of The number of those saved is going up Ten years ago only one out of four stricken with j cancer was Progress has resulted In saving one out of three according to the it Is now possible to save one out of This would mean the saving of an I additional lives each tho Society It Is urgent that It step up Its educational must understand tho need to go to a doctor for an annual health checkup to Insure detection and treatment of cancer when It Is and most Doctors must bo kept abreast of tho latest developments In diagnosis and so that a person reporting for a checkup can be of maximum Another reason for urgency In tho American Cancer Society's against cancer is tho fact that half of those who develop the disease must die from It unless science finds new cures or means of preventing Against this grim there is according to the Cancer research is on the The world never before has seen so many brilliant minds employed on a single health The Society's research attack is being pressed with Increased tempo by more than scientists In research centers throughout the Every avenue to possible solution Is being Considering all the the Society time is ripe to step up the attack on To do the Society urges all people to your family fight cancer with a checkup and a Remember the seven signals of Help yourself to stav alive by heeding In the county cases mentioned In the forepart of this the Cancer Society has given financial aid In some of the cases and supplied bandages and other aids In nearly and is still doing so where such aid is |