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Cancer Soc. Issues
1966 Fact Booklet
There are 1,400,000 people now alive cured of cancer in the U. S. according to the American Cancer Society in its recently released booklet, *1966 Cancer Facts and Figures.*
This is the largest figure ever, the Society reports. And more people are being cured each year. Many cancers are being prevented by correcting precancerous conditions and changing living habits. Actually, the Society's publication says, there are more than 2,000,000 alive, cured of cancer. Some 700,000 patients with cancers diagnosed within the last five years will live to enter the ranks of those Cured. Usually a person is not considered cured until five years after treatment without recurrence of the disease. Other significant figures emerge from *1966 Cancer Facts and Figures.* Cancer of the colon and rectum will strike about 73,000 Americans in 1966, more than any other type except cancer of the skin which is 92 per cent curable if treated when there is no regional involvement. Cancer of the colon and rectum will take the lives of 43,000 in 1966. It is estimated that almost three out of four colon and rectum patients could be saved by early diagnosis, particularly through wider use of the proctoscopic examination. Lung cancer in 1966, will kill approximately 50,000; 42.000 men and 8,000 women. This is 3,000 more than the estimated deaths in 1965. It is the leading cause of death from cancer among men. Only 5 per cent of lung cancer patients are being saved today, but it is estimated that upwards of 75 per cent of cancers of the lung could have been prevented if people had not smoked cigarettes. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women, with an estimated 63.000 new cases in 1966. It will cause 27,000 deaths. “Despite all efforts to date,* the Society's booklet reports, “The breast cancer death rate remains high. This could change for the better if more women regularly practiced breast self-examination and consulted their physicians at first symptoms. Delayed treatment is not only dangerous for the individual, but frustrating to the physician. . . .the five
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