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County Canc$r JOrive Ends June 9th
NOW, is always the time to fight cancer with a checkup.
NOW, is your opportunity to fight cancer with a check. Your dollars go to further research. There arc 40,000,000 Americans now livinj; whom cancer will strike if present rates continue. This is why tie search for
urgent. an ultimate cure is) so With your aid, l,O0O scientists are pressing the search f om Coast to coast. Some encouraging developments so far: new surgica techniques, radiation with atomi: chemicals, and supervoltage machines,
on the relapromising drugs, data tionship between candcr and hormones, cancer and viruses, better understanding of both the normal and the cancerous hun an cell. Your dollars also g> for educa- * tion and service.
Until recently, one ourth of all those with cancer wene sated—by surgery, x-ray or rad urn. Today one third are being sat ed. Hut one half—literally tens o|f thousands more—could be sated through earlier diagnosis and tetter treatment.
The Society needs your gifts to spread life-saving facts and to help ease the pain of needy cancer patients and to bring comfort to them and their families. ^The cancer drive for Rappahannock opened May 25 and will continue through June 9, If the worker in your community is unable to contact you, miil your contribution to Airs. Wl H. Lyne, Washington, Va. j
Rappahannock’s qu<jta is $600. I^et’s go over the top.]
Congratulations to Vliss Wilma Clark of Woodville, kvho during the first two days ojf the drive, completed her soliciting. |
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