Uintah Basin Standard | 1962-03-22 | Page 2 | Cancer Progress Year

Cancer Progress Year THE AMERICAN CANCER Society and the National Cancer Institute have designated 1962 as Cancer Progress Year in an effort to point up the advances made against cancer in the last 25 WHILE THEY CANNOT OFFER anything as spectacular as the man in space science has given they can in human dramatic and remarkable Twenty-five years ago about persons were cured of Today there are more than The number Is increasing each THE CURE RATE FOR CANCER climbed from one out of seven in the late to one out of three in the according to the it could be one out of two if all cancers diagnosed early and treated WHILE THE FINAL CONQUEST of cancer is not in the Society and tho Institute can take great faction in their uphill In 1962 some women- and children will be saved from cancer who would have died had they developed the 10 years This is indeed compelling reason for all to join in observing Cancer Progress AS Tins WAS WRITTEN an ACS Science Writers' Seminar was being held in where research scientists are pooling their knowledge in an attempt to defeat THE MEN WHO BROKE the genetics code are the possibility of stopping cancer at the microscopic level of the human The pattern followed by living cells In multiplication and differentiation is coded in- a substance in the IN CANCER CELLS SOMETHING happens to disorder the coded This Is passed on to new cells which multiply at an alarming rate and become murderous They feel the hope now lies in the possibility of changing this pattern back to the outlaws would be reformed and turned into decent WHETHER THE SECRET WILL be found this year or next is not but certainly the greater the support given to cancer the sooner a will be the Cancer with a Checkup and a shows each of us how we can best observe Cancer Progress