Show Cancer Society to launch fund Crusade The American Cancer Society will launch its annual educational and fund-raising Crusade in Utah on April 1 AGAIN THIS the Society will emphasize Cure Give and Cancer with a Checkup and a With more than Americans now alive cured of cancer and the prospect of saving many more Shirley Myers predicted a very successful 1963 Crusade PUBLIC is becoming increasingly aware of the urgency of the cancer problem and that something can be done about Myers said at least men and women will be saved who would have been lost to cancer had they developed the disease 10 years Mrs Myers pointed that while it is now possible to save least one out of two of those who develop only one of three is being present rates she women and children will die of cancer this year who might have been saved by earlier diagnosis and prompt BECAUSE OF THE loss of Myers first goal of the 1963 Crusade will be to get more people to doctors in time for early An annual health checkup is a person's best protection against death from part of the first goal is the objective of making sure that physicians are informed on the latest methods Of diagnosis and to a doctor When a person goes he should receive all the benefits of the best medical knowledge and THE SECOND goal of the 1963 Myers be more much needed money for Only through research can we hope eventually to save the one half of those who develop cancer who can not now be There is new hope in the scientific community that cancer can be eliminated as a threat to life New knowledge of cancer is piling up at a rapid Mrs said that increased funds are greatly needed to keep this knowledge building toward eventual solution of the cancer problem to the 1963 Crusade will pay the It is very 1 ing that the 1962 contributions exceeding K was our best Cj year in Let's umi beat it this I people of Roosevelt more in 1963 to cure PHONE NEWS ITEMS fM |